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No. 34,552

Job Growth
In U.S. Raises
New Fears
Of Inflation

'Good News for Worker’

■ : ;.*< Translates to Worries

■■ For Financial Markets

-V, By Lawrence Mai Inn

' International Herald Tribune

1 ^ — The government reported

' ' W, l*& y *S? *? y- S - e«»omy created almost

.. hall a nmhon jobs last month. It was the best
■ ; such figure in almost seven years, and it sent a

‘ * ^ wave of fear through finang fal markets that
higha 1 interest rates would be soon be coming
. . " ::: it to prevent the economy from overhea ting

~ i ‘What’s good news for the American worker

•- s is bad news for Wall Street,” said Allen Si™.i
•v^v chief economist for L ehman Brothers Global
- U*;, Economics.

The figure was almost doable Wall Street’s
■■•s' expectations, and that sent interest rates on 30-

• r.;;. | year U.S. Treasury bonds leering in the thin

Good Friday holiday market Because these
rates pulled down U.S. and other stock markets
~ all last month, expectations were for further
(teclines when the stock markets, which were
. . .7 _ ■ v dosed Friday, reopen Monday.

New hiring at the end erf the winter freeze
; - v that had gripped much of the United States, as

wdl as rebuilding efforts after the Los Angeles
earthquake in January, led to the creation of
456,000 jobs in March. That was the largest
' - *' number since 556,000 in October 1987, which
was the peak of the last financial boom and the
month in which the Dow Jones industrial aver-
-• 111 . — . age lost 22.6 percent in a single day.

The unemployment rate hdd steady at 6.5
. t , kwinr percent in March as formerly discouraged job-

‘ ■ 4 It! seekers retnmed and swelled the labor force,

many of them to take up part-time or tempo-
' — raw jobs.

Even taking the first quarter as a whole, to try

r " r " to iron out monthly aberrations, the UiL econ-

omy has created an average of 208,000 jobs a
month this year, a distinct improvement from
the average of 170,000 a month in what was
_ _ being called a “jobless recovery” in the first

quarter of 1993.

r ‘ “This is an extreme^ strong number,” said

David Wyss of DRI/McGraw Hill, who
- promptly raised his forecast of first-quarter

■ ‘ "~ T U.S. economic growth to an annual rate of 45

percent . . .'

Although this .might be considered by some

- . to be a wricotne slowdown frrant£el993 fourth
,_f quarter’s superheated growth rate of 7 percent,

- it still is almost 2 full percentage points above
what the Federal Reserve Board says the econo-

- my can normally handle without inflationary
pressure on the labor supply and industrial

’ . ■ capacity.

The reverberations in lhe few financial mar-
kets that were open Friday were exaggerated
because of the dun holiday activity. The dollar
jumped against the Deutsche mark on antiripa-

• £. tion of higher U.S. interest rates, and inflation

fears drove down the price of the 30-year Trea-
sury bond down sharply. (Page 9)

Asked what this portended for the- stock
market on Monday. Mr. Wyss said: “Down.”

The chain of events is complex, but Wall
Street figures it works tike tins:

First, sirice the Fed first raised interest rales
two months ago, the market price of bonds has

• ‘ gore down as the interest rates they pay have

gone up. Wealthy investors and funds that had

■ |1 ‘ borrowed money to buy bonds in the expecta-

tion that the opposite would happen — that

See JOBS, Page 4

MoBhca Kjhum/Agencr Frar-Rmi*

GOOD FRIDAY PROCESSION — Christian Palestinians carrying a cross on Friday in Jerusalem along tire Via Dolorosa, where
according to tradition Jesus carried Us cross. Meanwhile, ph™ to send a foreign force to patrol Hebron were criticized. Page 4.

Japan Fires Back at U.S. Over Trade

Tokyo’s Salvo Cites a Broad Range of Restrictive Barriers

By Steven BruU

International Herald Tribune

TOKYO-— The government, striking back at
Washington for a report that singled out Japan
for its trade barriers, leaked to the press Friday
its own study castigating U.S. trade practices.

But Japanese officials appeared at pains to
respond coolly and calmly to the UJ>. report
itself in an effort to play down a confrontation
with Washington that has pushed the value of
the yen to pamfuBy high levels.

“We do not need to swing from joy to sorrow
on each item listed as a trade barrier,” said the
chief cabinet secretary. Masayoshi Takemnra.
“As a whole, the report contained tough criti-
cism of Japan, but that win not lead directly to
nnOaieral action.” '

A draft of Japan’s own trade analysis, leaked
to the financial daily Nihon Keizai^Umbun.
said Washington was guilty of applying umlal-
end measures, excessive use of anti-dumping
charges, quantitative restrictions and govern-
ment procurement that favors U.S. goods.

The Annual Report on Unfair Trade Policies
by Major Trading Partners charged the United
Stales with violations in 9 of 13 categories,
unchanged from last year, while the European
Union had violated 4 categories, down from 6.
For the first time, the report, which will be
released in final form next month, included
Pima and Taiwan, which are bidding to be-
come members of the General Agreement on
Tariffs and Trade.

“Our principle is to judge other countries
based mi objective rules,” said a Trade Ministry
official. “It’s the antithesis of the UJL ap-
proach."

Nevertheless, the government’s measured re-
sponse followed reports from Washington that
offi cials were not planning any new sanctions
against Tokyo for now. Concerned more imme-
diately aboiinife stability bT the worid’s finan-
cial markets and about Tokyo's cooperation in
dealing with North Korea, the United Slates
has derided to give Tokyo more time to flesh
out sketchy proposals issued earlier this week to

Ally of Berlusconi
Praises Mussolini as
’Greatest Statesman’

s timula te the economy and expand market ac-
cess.

This restrained response is in striking con-
trast to some of the Clinton administration’s
tough lan g ua g e toward Japan in recent months.

Tokyo's tone also highlights what appears to
be a conscious strategy to react passively in
order to avoid exacerbating tensions and inflat-
ing the yen, which would inflict further pain on
the Japanese economy.

Washington’s sharp dismissal of Tokyo trade
proposals earlier this week pushed the yen
sharply higher, threatening to smother faint
embers of growth that could mark the end of
Japan's longest postwar recession. A strong yen
makes Japanese products less competitive over-
seas and slows the overall economy.

Still, > Hiroshi -Kumagair the Japanese trade
minister, fretted openly that the American re-
port would set the stage for sanctions.

“Now that Super 301 has been revived, 1 am

See JAPAN, Page 4

By Alan Cowell

.V«i York Tima Service

ROME — Four days after a watershed elec-
tion brought his party into the political main-
stream for the first time , the neofasrist leader,
Gianfranco Fmi, a member of the triumphant
rightist affiance that stands to form Italy’s next
government, feted Benito Mussolini as “the
greatest statesman of the century.”

The remark in a published interview seemed
certain to deepen fears among Italy’s small
Jewish minority, which still recalls Mussolini's
race laws and the deportation of thousands of
Italian Jews to Nazi death camps in Woild War
IL

Not only that, the comment seemed likely to
add to apprehensions elsewhere in Europe, par-
ticularly Germany, already troubled that Italy’s
rightist surge will embolden German neo-Naris
and strengthen their showing in a string of
elections this year.

Mr. Fhn. head of the National Alliance,
which took 105 of the 366 seats that now form
the rightist majority in the 650-seat lower
house, was speaking as Silvio Berlusconi faced
new troubles with his efforts to bring his rightist
partners into line in a dispute over the forma-
tion of a new government.

Apart from the potential embarrassment
from Mr. Fun’s comments, Mr. Berlusconi, a
mfllionaire media magnate who entered politics
only three months ago, faced continued squab-
bles with the third member of his alliance,
Umberto Boss! the head of the separatist
Northern League.

Thursday night, Mr. Bosst seemed to reverse
a commitment to support Mr. Beriuscani in his
bid to be Italy’s next prime minister after the
new Parliament meets for the first time in two
weeks' time.

In a statement after Mr. Bossi met some of
the Northern League’s 106 deputies, a doubling
of its lower bouse representation since the last
elections in 1992, the party said it wanted its
own parliamentary floor leader, Roberto Maro-
m, to be named prime minister.

Mr. Maroni met Friday with Mr. Berlusconi
for further discussions on the shape of a new
government.

Mr. Fini, too, has raised the odds in recent
days, saying his party, the linear descendant of
Mussolini's Fascists, would join a new govern-
ment “on my own terms,” in part a reference to
his demand for direct presidential elections.
Undo: the present constitutional arrangement.
Italy’s president is chosen by Parliament.

Moreover, in an interview with the Turin
newspaper La Stamps published Friday, Mr.

See ITALY, Page 4

Bribery Trial
Sought for Fiat
No.2andNo.3

ROME — Investigating magistrates re-
quested Friday that two of the top three
executives at Italy’s biggest private com-
pany, Fiat, be sent for trial for alleged
corruption, judicial sources said.

Fiat’s manag in g director, Cesare Ro-
miti, and its finance director, Francesco
Mattidi, were among 61 people recom-
mended for trial in connection with al-
leged naft in the building of Rome’s sub-
way, the sources said.

u the magistrates' request is accepted.
Mr. Romiti and Mr. Maitioli would be-
come the most senior business figures to
stand trial for corruption in Italy's Tan-
gentopoli political kickbacks scandal
Others recommended for trial included
the disgraced former Socialist prime min-
ister, Bettino Craxi, and the former head
of Italy’s giant state industrial holding
company. Istituto per la Ricostrurione In-
dustriale, or LRI, Franco NobflL
The magistrates suspect that bribes to-
taling more than 100 billion lire (S62 rrril-
Kon) had been paid by businessmen to
political parties in return for contracts, the
sources said.

A judge must now rule whether a trial
should proceed.

Mr. Romiti’s lawyers said the allega-
tions a gains t their client were devoid of all
foundation.

Mr. Romiti, 70, and Mr. Mattidi, 53,
are the most senior executives at Fiat after
die chairman. G ianni Agnelli. The compa-
ny had no immediate co mmen t
The Rome subway inquiry began in Oc-
tober 1992, when magistrates in Milan
ordered a search of the offices of Interme-
tro, the consortium that is building the
subway and in which Fiat is a partner.

Mr. Romiti was questioned in the case
in January.

"The sources said charges in the magis-
trates’ request ranged from corruption to
the illegal financing of political parties
and falsifying balance sheets.

China Seizes Leading Dissident, Setting Stage for New Rights Friction

By Patrick E. Tyler

New York Tuna Service

BEIJING — Seven carloads of Chinese secu-
rity agents arrested Wei Jingsheng, China’s
most prominent dissident, as he was trying to
return to Bepog by car on Friday after a month
of self-imposed exile from the capital.

The decision to move aggressively against
Mr. Wei, who was returning to Beijing to renew
Ms pro-democracy and human-rqpits cam-
paign, is expected to further complicate rela-
tions between China and the United States over

Beijing’s rights record.
China has two n>on

China has two months remaining to show
“overall significant progress” on a seven-point

human rights agenda that Resident Bill Clin-
ton set out in a May 1993 executive order.

Without such progress at the end of 12
months, Mr. Clinton has warned that he will
cancel China’s favorable tariff privileges in the
UJ5. market Such a move would risk retaliation
against U JS. corporations operating in China or
compe tin g for huge contracts here.

Mr. Wei was taken under a warrant for arrest
and interrogation, said his secretary, Tong YL
who was traveling with him and witnessed the
arrest. The secretary notified news organiza-
tions in Beijing by telephone. She said about 20
agents were involved in the arrest on the eastern
outskirts of the city.

It was the second time Mr. Wei has been
taken into custody in a month.

On March 4, be was held for about 30 hours
after he had met secretly five days earlier with
the U.S. Slate Department's senior human
rights official, John Shattuck. In the meeting.
Mr. Wei passed along a message to Mr. Clinton
asking him to remain firm in demanding that
Beijing release its political prisoners.

The arrest on Friday under a special warrant
by a large force of agents appeared to be a more
premeditated police action to put Mr. Wei
under control but the pretext was unknown.
Police officials and the foreign Ministry had no
immediate comment.

Mr. Wei’s departure from Beijing on March 6
at first appeared to be part of a prearranged
plan to meet the U.S. secretary of state. Warren
M. Christopher, wbo held four days of rights
talks in Beijing from March 1 1 to 14.

Bui after Mr. Christopher, under pressure
from tire Chinese leadership, announced that he
had decided not to meet with Chinese dissi-
dents, Mr. Wei stayed away from the capital
and seemed to be awaiting the expiration of Ms
six-month parole period, which aided March
29.

The Communist Party leadership has super-
vised the handling of Mr. Wei at high levels and
is now apparently seeking to bring to an end the

free speech movement Mr. Wei has energized
among the dissident community.

Officials lodged a vigorous protest with the
U.S. State Department after Mr. Shattuck’s
meeting with Mr. Wei. They accused the h uman
rights official of disregarding Chinese law and
interfering in tire country’s internal affairs by
meeting with a “convicted criminal”

On Thursday, officials sou a warning shot
through the foreign journalist community here
by notifying one Hong Kong-based newspaper
that Mr. Wei would not be able to meet with
foreign journalists or diplomats for three years.

See CHIN A Page 4

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In First, Gene Therapy Partly Cures Inherited Disease

By Rick Weiss

Washington Past Service

PHILADELPHIA — Marking a landmark achievement in
tire nascent field of genetic medicine, scientists have reported
„ the first successful use of gene therapy tobnng about lasang
I improvement in a patient with a fife-threatening inherited

d ^?oroerimental technique, which invdved rgdacmg de-
fective genes with normal ones, appear* to have faBm short of
a completecure in lire patient — a 30-year-old Quebec seam-
SSnd part-time bank teller who is now healthy bat remains

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the National Center for Human Genome Research at the
National Institutes of Health. “This is proof that this ap-

ng a landmark achievement in R^w^hasbeoi^^romitthand lias sthreefa
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nfife-threateiing inherited rare hereditary syndrome that causwcholestool

to nse to eight to 10 times normal levels, dogging Hood vessels
and precipitating heart disease.

Many victims of the admen t, called familial hypercholester-
olemia, need bypass surgery while still in their teens. The
Quebec w oman had suffered a heart attack at 16 and under-
went bypass surgery at 24. Most victims of the condition die
from heart attacks in tbeir 20s or 30s. The patient said that two
of her brothers had died of sudden heart failure, and a aster
was now 31 with the disease.

The w oman -spoke with reporters this past week, almost two
years after becoming the first person to receive tire experirom-
tal therapy. She was. flanked by her doctors, including James

M. Wilson, the University of Pennsylvania researcher who
pioneered the radical therapy, and expressed relief that recent
tests had indicated the procedure was largely a success.

“1 had nothing to lose but to go ahead,* she said. “And it’s
paying off.”

_ The experiment was not the first gene therapy procedure
performed in the United States: in 1990. National Institutes of
Health researchers, after a prolonged debate ova tire scientific
and ethical issues relating to goietic manipulation in humans,
provided new genes to a child with an inherited immune system
deficiency.

“Gene therapy is still very modi in its early stages,” Mr.
f!nllms said. “But a few decades from now, when people look
back, tbeyTl see this as a significant milestone.”

While impressed with the work, other scientists said that the
technique is cumbersome compared to other gene therapy
approaches under investigation, some of which avoid surgery
by injecting gene-bearing viruses directly into the body.

American Students Get an Uncommon Lesson in Japan

By T. R- Reid

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body did.

“Certainly we can team something, we can
learn a lot, from this society where crime is not
common,” said Clarence Joses, who introduced
himself as principal and “scarcity officer” of
McKinley High School in Baton Rouge.

Mr. Janes led a group of McKinley students
and teachers on a visit to fins school They
hoped to “learn so me t hin g” about how Japan
has buflt a free and p rospero u s society that is
largely unscaixed by the delinquency, dings
and violence so faimHar in urban U.S. streets
and schools.

“We need help with oar violence problem,"
Webb Haymaker, a McKinley senior, told die
Japanese students. “It is the number one issue
for Americans, and we hope we can get seme

help from you.”

It was not just chance that brought Baton
Rouge to Nagoya, an auto-making center 360
■kilometers (225 miles) south of Tokyo. The
students from McKinley came because of a
specific — and trage — event.

In the fall of 1992, an Asahi-ga-oka student.

V nehihim Hatton, arrived at McKinley as an
exchange student One month later, tire 16-
year-ola youth was dead — shot at point-blank
when he knocked on a stranger's front door
while searching for a Halloween party.

The JtiffingDecame an international cause
cfclibre. In Japan, it sparked fury against tire
United Stye* , particularly after the killer was
acquitted by a jury. , ,

A grotto of six students and three faculty
members from McKinley traveled to Japan tins
past week to visit the slain student's mgn
schooL

"We wanted to bring a message of friendship

and healing, and take home a message about
c o m bating violence,” Mr. Janes said.

But no sooner had tire Americans landed
here than violence struck again- A Lor- Angeles
ffju jarlring last Friday in which two college
students from Japan were slam rekindled tire
familiar fear and anger among Japanese.

Los Angeles police reported that they had
arrested two men, aged 18 and 20, for the
killings. Hut, too, became major news bos.

“Everywhere we’ve been in Japan, we’ve

mainly had to answer questions about the Los
Angeles murdere,” Webb Haymaker said. “All
yon can do is apologize.”

“Why do we have problems in our schools?”
asked Mr. Jones, the principal “Drugs. Gangs.
Broken homes. The economy, unemployment.
Eleven-year-olds selling drugs on tire comer.”

To the Japanese, this description sounds like
a different planet Japan has virtually no drugs,
no guns, no single parents. The sick economy is
a major problem, but unemployment is not.
Companies fed a civic obligation to keep every-
one on the payroll even during the current long
recession.

At one point, David Biamon, a McKinley
teacher, declared that^ “the U.S. made a very big
mistake 30 years ago, taking prayer out of the

While tire Asahi-ga-Oka lads were digesting
that,^ Webb Haymaker provided a farther shock
by disagreeing publidy with his teacher: “I just
want to say,” he observed poKtdy, “that I
believe in tire separation of church and state.”

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Krista Sager, the head of the Greens party in

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United
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The stay of a headless Cambodian statue
and how it went home. Page 7.

Book Review

Page 5.

dispute with North Korea over inspection* of
its niidear sites.

After meeting with Defense Secretary Wil-
liam J. Perry, Foreign Minister Han Sung Joo
of South Korea saia Seoul was “continuing to
discuss" with the United States a decision on
joint military maneuvers later this year. “We
have not reached a decision," he said.

Mr. Han said “we are leaving the door
open for a dialogue and a negotiated settle-
ment” following the United Nations Security
Council’s statement Thursday urging North
Korea to readmit International Atomic Ener-
gy Agency inspectors.

Earlier article. Page 5.

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Merchants Protest
Paris Riot Damage

Police Restraint Questioned

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Some of tiie cars damaged in Paris streets by violent dements among the student demonstrators. More than 200 vehicles were wrecked.

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PARIS — Shopkeepers threat-
ened Friday to form their own self-
defense force to combat rampagin g
youths and denounced die poiicc
for failing to prevent widespread
vandalism during the student pro-
tests.

Interior Minister Charles Pasqna
said the government would not tol-
erate a “shambles” in the city, but
he said that if the police had inter-
vened more forcefully “we_ would
not be deploring broken windows
but possibly deaths.”

Looting and street battles oc-
curred in several cities Thursday as
renegade youths rampaged during
generally peaceful marches by stu-
dents celebrating the withdrawal of
a law that would have cut the jmm-

TTmm wage for young people enter-
ing the labor market.

The worst violence occurred in
Paris , Police headquarters said 120
poficemen were injured and 335
people arrested.

Touvier and the Church: How Did He Get a Haven?

By Barry James

Inientationo/ Herald Tribune

PARIS — One question so far unas-
wered in the trial of Paul Touvier, the first
Frenchman since World War U to stand
trial for crimes against humanity, is how
he managed to get uncritical support from
many in the Roman Catholic Qiurch for
several decades.

Touvier, 78, relied on friends in the
church to conceal him, help feed his family
and defend him for decades after be went
into hiding at the end of the war.

The prosecution stiH is presenting evi-
dence against Touvier in the trial at Ver-
sailles, which concluded a second week of
hearings on Friday and winch has three
weeks to run when ii resumes after the
Easter break. The evidence depicts Tou-
vier as a lifelong anti-Semite who rose to a
powerful position in the wartime “MHice"
— the French counterpart of the Nazi
Gestapo — where he was allegedly respon-
sible for executing seven Jewish prisoners.
Twice sentenced to death in his absence
after the war, he turned to the church to
save his skin.

Had Touvier been backed only by the

ultraconservative wing of the church, die
case would have been more readily under-
standable, since many in the church wel-
comed France's wartime government as an
ally a gains t secularism and communism.

But his clerical supporters included
many of solid democratic principles —
including even some who had fought in the
anti-Nazi Resistance — and senior
churchmen up to the rank of Cardinal
Jean Viflot, who became the Vatican No. 2
under Pope Paul VL

Coming from a strict. Catholic family of
1 1 children with many contacts among the
clergy, Touvier apparently knew how to
manipulate the priests and monks from
whom he sought help.

After the war, when thousands were
killed is a settling of accounts with the
losers, many priests revived the ancient
notion of the church as a place of sanctu-
ary. They took in anyone who asked for
bdp without asking questions.

When the heat had died down, Touvier
sought refuge in the most obvious place,
his family home at Chambfery in the south
of France. Living behind closed shutters
under his wife's name for a quarter of a
century, he managed to acquire an ex-

traordinarily diverse and powerful group
of supporters among the dergy.

He got one priest to perform his mar-
riage ceremony clandestinely, without go-
ing through the required avil ceremony
that would have revealed his identity. An-
other arranged payments for him from the
church charity, Secours Cathohque. He
earned money by typing out beatification
procedures for the church. He even regis-
tered his address at the archdiocese of
Lyon.

With the expiry of the 20-year statute of
limitations on the war crimes for which he
had been sentenced to death, Touvier was
no longer in risk of his life. His clerical
friends were then able to mount a cam-
paign to get President Georges Pompidou
to remove a legal restiction preventing him
from inheriting the family home.

An influential priest, the Reverend
Charles Duquaire, threw himself behind
Touvier’s cause with an enthusiasm that
remains a mystery. Father Duquaire, who
was as first the private secretary to the
archtrishop of Lyon, and then Cardinal
Villot’s bead of household in the Vatican,
had connections throughout the church.

He organized the campaign for clemen-
cy, accumulating petitions from 1 8 mem-
bens of the clergy, many of than in hi g h
authority.

Gabriel Marcd, the Catholic existen-
tialist, also was persuaded to sign a peti-
tion. But he did what none of the eminent
churchme n had thought to do: he investi-
gated Touviers background. As a result,
accusing Touvier of being a killer and a
liar, he withdrew his letter.

Mr. Marcel’s action delayed bat did not
stop the campaign on Touvier’s behalf,
and President Georges Pompidou signed
an act of clemency in November 1971.

This, however, only added to Touvier’s
problems by reminding the French that
one of their most important wartime col-
laborators was still alive. Relatives of
those whom Touvier allegedly had sent to
their deaths accused Him of committing
crimes against humanity, for which no
statute of limitations exists.

But it look more than 20 years to bring
Touvier to trial because he went back into
hiding in 1972. He eventually was found in
1989,hiding at a priory in Nice belonging
to a dissident conservative bishop, Marcel
Lefebvre.

After 50 Years, an Archive of ‘Ghosts’ for Germans

By Stephen Kinzer

New York Times Service

BERLIN — When the U.S. Army com-
pletes its pullout from Germany this year, it
will turn over to the German authorities an
archive of 25 million Nazi Party documents
that Germany has for years been reluctant to
accept

The archive, officially known as the Berlin
Document Center, is an invaluable source of
information for scholars and Nazi-hunters.
It also includes chillmg evidence of how Nazi
leaders sought to develop scientific princi-
ples to bdp them breed a “master race.”

“There are a lot of ghosts walking around
here,” said David Marwdl, the historian who
has directed the archive since 1988. *Tm
always struck by the reaction of groups of
Germans who come to visit here. They've
heard the hackneyed chchfes about Nazism,
but it’s different when they actually see the
files."

Before turning the archive over to German
control on July I, Mr. Marwdl hopes to
complete microfilming every item. Oaks are
nncrofilrrdng more than 40,000 pages a day,
making two .copies of every document, one
for use here and another for a ILS. archive.

In other offices, archivists are cross-index-

ing files to ease access for researchers. Spe-
cial computer programs wfll allow them to
find files of Nazis even if they have an
incorrect spelling.

“The Berlin Document Center is regarded
as a very important resource,” said Efraim
Zuroff, Jerusalem director of the Simon Wie-
senthal Center. “We get allegations all the
time from people who suspect that a particu-
lar individual may have had a Nazi past. The
first place we go to check is Berlin. It’s a
requisite starting point”

American soldiers control access to the
sprawling center, which is housed in a former
Gestapo complex in western Bohn. Ameri-
cans run the center under an informal post-
war agreement with the other Weston occo-

K powers, Britain and France, largely
e it is in what was once the American
sector of occupied Berlin.

The largest collection in the archive con-
sists of the entire Nazi Party membership
flips, more than 1 1 miTlinn rawfa. In the final

days of World War II, Nazi bureaucrats
bound these cards into tight bundles and
shipped them from party headquarters in
Munich to a paper mm where they were to be
destroyed. American soldiers, graded to the
trove by farmers, found the files shortly

before they were to be converted into pulp.

Also in the archive are records of Nazi
agencies that controlled culture and educa-
tion.

“For me, the culture archive is one of the
real jewels here,” Mr. Marwdl said. “It gives
a real sense of how systematically the Nazis
tried to control what people were allowed to
read, see and hear.”

Perhaps the most chilling collection in the
document center is that of the SS, a political
and military vanguard of Nazism All SS
members who sought to many were required
to submit their families’ genealogical back-
grounds, and those of their prospective
wives, dating to 1800, or 1750 if they were
officers.

Ethnic Germans bam outside of Germany
who sought to join the SS, along with those
who applied for German citizenship, were
required to appear before trained specialists
whose job was to provide detailed analysis of
the applicant’s facial structure. The farms,
240,000 of which are in the document center
archive, include 21 categories and an intri-
cate grading scale to assure that applicants
did not have excessively large noses or ears,
irregularly spaced eyes, swarthy complex-
ions, or other physical features deemed un-
desirable.

Tbe vaults in which the archive is housed
contain mares of narrow corridors nearly 13
kilometers (8 miles) long. Most of the 50
permanent employees, nearly all of whom
are German, are computer specialists whose
goal is to complete a complex series of cross-
referencing projects before July.

On walls above their desks, some employ-
ees have posted photocopies of nuggets they
have encountered in tbe files, among them
Adolf Echmann’s party membership card
and Josef Mengde’s certificate of member-
ship in the Medical Chamber.

In the years after the document center was
opened in 1946, some hoped that it would
become the instrument by which former Na-
zis could be identified so they could be kept
out of influential positions. But that was not
to be.

“De-NaziGcation was something that nev-
er really materialized,” Mr. Marwdl said. “It
was an idea that was overtaken by events in a
lot of ways. The outbreak of the Cold War
changed everything. The Western powers be-
came more interested in assuring that Ger-
many was a bulwark of anti-communism,
and tbe goal of keeping every Nazi out of
evoy important job sort of fell by the way-
side.”

Scores of vehicles' were damaged
and windows were smashed in
more than 100 stores, hotels and
banks.

Tbe national shopkeepers orga-
nization said it was “scandalized by
the lax and irresponsible attitude of
security forces” dining the distur-
bances.

The group’s spokesman said
shopkeepers were prepared to form
then- own “intervention groups” to

C**m'h aT wnitiiH.

“Given the disastrous social and
economic climate, protests can
only multiply in the coming
months,” the organization said.
“French shopkeepers are fed up
with becoming the scapegoats of
each demonstration.”

Mr. Pasqua said deaths might
have resulted if commanders ted
ordered the riot police to charge
into the throng erf demonstrators in
an effort to catch the minority of
troublemakers.

“We had a crowd of peaceful
demonstrators who were marching
in calm.” he said.

“The wreckers infiltrated into
the midst of them.”

He said that authorities would
have to consider the possibility of
harming girh mass mar ches in city
centers because of the risk of trou-
ble.

A spokesman far the riot police
trade ration ^"4 commanders bad
been slow to order their befaneted
units, aimed with dubs and tear
g j m , into action.

“What went wrong was perhaps

era wereleft'tofet an with it,” he
said.

Paris police headquarters said
about 70 of tbe youths arrested
would be prosecuted, most of them
for attacking police officers, de-
stroying property or carrying ille-
gal weapons.

Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the
far-right National Front, charged
that the wreckers rampaged un-
checked, “comforted by the inertia
of security faces who were para-
lyzed by the raders of the interior
minister.”

Clashes also broke out Thursday
in tbe western dry of Nantes be-
tween riot police and about 1,000
youths who smashed down the
doors of the regional government
braiding with battering ram.

The riots in Paris were the worst
in the monthlong, nationwide stri-
dent protests against a law that
would have allowed employers to
pay entry-level graduates 80 per-
cent of tbe m i ni mum wage of 5,800
francs (51,000) a month.

Prime Minis ter Edouard BaHa-
dur — his credibifity on the fine
after conceding to protests by Air
Fiance workers, fishermen and
iblic school proponents — Was
1 to retreat one more tone and
the law this week,
violence was a reminder of
deep-seated problems plaguing
modi of French youth, one-quarter
of whom are unemployed — a rate
four times as high as Germany’s.

Urban blight in high-rise sub-
urbs , tension with tbe police and
fear of an uncertain economic fu-
ture have created the conditions fa
periodic explosions. (AP, Reuters)

Rebels Kidnap American in Colombia

BOGOTA (AP) — Leftist rebels kidnapped an Ammon in central
Colombia and hours laier the police shot dead a motorcydiK during their

search for the victim, authorities said Friday.

Rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia abducted
Raymond Rising on Thursday as he rode bis motorcyde !to the Summer
Institute of Linguistics school in Loma Linda, southeast of Bogota, the
Mike said. Rebels earlier this year threatened tofadnap Americans and
hold them for ransom as “prisoners of war. The rebels have a strong
presence in Meta state, where the kidnapping occurred.

At one police roadblock set op m an attempt to findMr. Rising,
officers opened fire on two men riding a motorcyde, kiltin g one and 9
wounding the other, the radio reported.

U.S. Warns Sudan on Aid for Terror

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia (AP) —The U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations said Friday she had warned Sudan’s Islamic government it
would face increasing international isolation u nless it ended its support
fa terrorism, improved its human rights record and ended its aril war.

AmbassadorMadeleine K. Albright told a news conference here that
she delivered the message a droeaifier to President Omar Hassan Ahmad
RacTrir H ming a private. hourtong meeting in Khartoum.

A U.S. official traveling with Mrs. Albright described the ambassador’s

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Hostage Ordeal Ends at Japan Paper

TOKYO (Reuters) — Two rightist extremists surrendered to the police
cm Friday, almost six hours after invading the headquarters or a leading
Tokyo newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, and threatening nostages with dyna-
mite, a pistol and a ceremonial sword.

The rightists, who were protesting Asahi Shbribun's stance on Japan’s
World War II role, seized about 10 people in an executive reception room,
but released all but two hostages in ntidaftemoon. The remaining pair
emerged unbanned later as their captors gave in to police persuasion and
sur r e n dered.

The gctremisis were roemboi of a group calling itself Taflrikai, or Party
of Great Sadness. They threw leaflets out of the window reading: “The
mad" are tbe real Class A war criminals." They said they particularly
objected to coverage of war-related issues by the paper and its related
p ublication, TV Asahi

Moldova Suspends Language Law

KISHINEV, Moldova (Reuters) — Moldova's new parHament on
suspended on Friday a language jaw that has stirred tensions between 0
ethnic Romanians and Russians and that led to violent conflict in 1991
Tbe vote was 80 to 15.

A language law adopted in 1989 made Romanian the official language
of Moldova, where etb^ Romanians make up 65 percent of tbe popula-
tion. Formerly, Russian had been tbe offirial language, as it was in all
parts of the Soviet Union. The law stipulated that all non-native Roma-
nian speakers who bad to work in positions of leadership with dhnk
Romanians had to mice a compulsory language test from 1994.

The law got a hostile reception from the 1.5-millioa Slav minority,
which viewed it as an attempt to reduce than to second-rate citizens.

Corrections

Due to an editing error, an article in ’
described the television market into which Wharf Cable has invited BI
Wold Service Television. Wharfs network is restricted to Hong Kong
and does not jnchtrie China.

A book review in Tbesday’s editions incorrectly stated the price of a
hook published by Bloomsbury in London. “The Rise, Corruption and
Craning Fall of the House of Sand” is priced at £20.

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Agenee Frtmce-Prene

PARIS — Prime Minister
Edouard BaDador wfll make an of-
ficial visit to China from April 7 to
10, aimed at consolidating the re-
cent reconciliation of the two coun-
tries, Mr. Bahadur’s office an-
nounced. He wfll be the first
French prime minister to visit Qu-
14 years.

nam 14 years.

China to Take Sting Out of Air Delays

BELTING (Renters) — China has adopted a new tactic in its losing war
on airport delays, mandating that idled passengers be placated with food,
drink, sightseemg and hotel rooms.

Free telephone and facsimile use would also be available during
mechanical delays under new roles issued by Air China and disclosed on
Friday by the official Xinhua press agency. If bad weather is to Name,
however, telephone and fax privileges would apply only to fiitt-das
travelers and others deemed “important,” the roles say.

Two-hour delays would merit free drinks and food. If delays extend w
four hours, “passengers should be sent to hotels or sightseeing and other
entertainment activities.” Overnight delays merit board and lodging in a
four-star hotel a better fa first-class passengers. Economy-class travel-
ers must accept two-star accommodation.

Amfrak wffl ban smoking on all its short- and medium-distance trains as
of May 1. The smoke-free policy includes all daytime trains operating
between Washington and Boston and all trains operating to and from
Canada. (API

Employees at top-rated re stau rants, bars and hotels m Florence, Venice
and Trenta.Italy, plan to strike Saturday and Sunday over an impasse in
contract talks. Workers at the casino in Venice also called a strike for
Saturday. In tbe Rome area, sane caffes and tom agencies were dosed
Friday. Snack bars and self-service restaurants on the highways dosed for
24 hours beginning early Friday. (AP)

Gas station owners across Portugal joined a grass-roots fight against a 1
percent fee on credit card purchases that went into effect Friday, refusing
to accept bank cards from travelers who crowded the roads fa the Easter
holiday. (AP)

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Russia’s Latest Signal on NATO Program Is f Go ’

Reuters

MOSCOW — Foreign Minister
Andrei V. Kozyrev actea Friday to
reassure NATO on Russian partici-
pation in its Partnership for Peace
program, saying that Moscow
would sign up fa it later this
month.

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that Russia might take six or seven
more months to makw a final deci-
sion on joining the East-West mili-
tary cooperation plan.

But Mr. Kozyrev said the re-
mark, made by the chief presiden-
tial spokesman, Vyacheslav Kosti-
kov, may have been misinterpreted
“or maybe not accurately formulat-
ed.”

“The agreement with NATO will
be signed in the second half of
April as was provided by our time-
table and then afterwards there wfll
be tbe process of filling in” the
details, he said.

“Maybe Kostikov was speaking
of this process which may take a
half year or even more,” said Mr.
Kozyrev, who was speaking at
Moscow’s international airport be-
fore welcoming the UN secretary-

general, Burros Butros Ghali, to
Moscow.

Mr. Kostikov’s comments, sug-
gesting a change in position by Mr.
Yeltsin under pressure from na-
tionalist critics in parliament nnd
the armed forces, alarmed the
North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion. NATO considers the partiri-
pation of its former Cold war ene-
my as the program’s biggest prize.

A spokesman at NATO head-
quarters in Brussels said Thursday
that the alliance was ready to ex-
plain tbe rationale and merhanigm
of tbe program to clear up “consd-
erable mtsundetstandiiig.”

Thirteen countries of the former
Soviet bloc have signed tbe Part-
nership fa Peace program. The
program calls fa joint exercises
and military cooperation between
the Atlantic alliance and tbe former
Soviet bloc.

Russian critics say the NATO
program could inhibit future Rus-
sian trouble-shooting activities in
hot spots of the former Soviet
Union.

Russian military offi cials have
privately expressed irritation to
Western diplomats about NATO’s
handling of the Partnership pro-
gram, suggesting that Moscow
should have been granted some
kind of special status.

In another devdopment, Prime
Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin
said Friday that Russia may apply
this year for membership of the
European Union.

“We hope in this year this ques-
tion will be solved, in Russia’s case
in tbe political sense and then also
in tbe area of economic relations,”
he said.

Full Chuunel Service Set for September

By Richard W. Stevenson

New York Tunes Service

LONDON — The operator of the Channel
Tunnel said Friday that fufl passenger service
would not begin until September, four
months after the formal opening May 6 of the
undersea rail link between Britain and
France and 15 months lata than originally
scheduled.

Officials warned earlier this year that there
would be an unspecified delay in the begin-
ning of passenger service immediately after
Queen Elizabeth and Preadent Franqras Mit-
terrand inaugurate the tunnel next month.
The opening coranony will go ahead as
planned.

In an interview Friday with the British
Broadcasting Corp- Alastair Mortem, the
chairman of die operating company, Euro-
tunnel, said limited passenger runs through
the 31-mile (50-kilometer) tunnel would be-

gin in Jane. Service will gradually build up
over the summer, he said.

In September, die company expects to be-
gin running a full schedule in which travelers
can simply arrive at either end of the tunnel
and leave within 15 minutes on one of the rail
shuttles that win haul passengers and their
care under tbe English Channel, Mr. Mortem
said.

Tbe S15 billion project has been plagued
by technical and financial problems since
construction began hi J 987.

Tbe latest dday was caused largely by late
deliveries of rail cars and locomotives and the

skrwra-than-expected pace of safety testing

fa a variety of equipment

Eurotunnel is p re pari ng for the begin-

ning of freight service over the next several
months. It had been sdiednled to start last
month.

Mr. Morton did not specify the level of
passenger service that will be available over

the summer, other than to compare the build-
up to a car accelerating through first, second,
third and fourth gears. But he suggested that
in its early stages there would be little avail-
ability and that most cross-channel travelers
this summer would have to continue to use
ferries.

Tbe delay will certainly do nothing to help
the tunnel’s image, especially in Britain,
where many people seem to view it less as a
triumph of engineering and a historic link to
tbe Continent than as a white elephant,

“While other countries rehsh grand pro-
jects, the British suspect them,” said an edito-
rial Friday in The Independent, a Loudon
newspaper. “If the tunnel had opened on
schedule and at the forecast price, the nation-
al psyche would have been disturbed almost
as mu ch as by ceasing to be an i«i«nri. So a
vote of thanks is due to Eurotunnel: We do
not have to rethink ourselves just yet."

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WASHINr-mu — ^ _ and an unknown number of other states were not

tn _ p-JrS * UN — The two Democratic sena- covering abortions forrape orincest. Mr. Hanley is

c lin.on »■*■> the Medicld director of Arkansas. (NYT)

C oi,or ptl ° to lrlc * Whlto Hou **

senator LTaJe Bumpers who once called Mr pboto of a grim-faced President Bill Clinton and a

Jiwt I supporter" seat a letter dated May sct ^° I adviser, Georae Slephanopoulos, saying it

ri’ t 111 Mr> Ward’s treatment by the Wa $ a five-montfrold White House picture thatlhe

KesolutionTnisi Corp. to the White House coun- magazine had agreed to return in January.

Ml, Bernard W. Nussbaum, and Deputy Treasury “1 was irate," said Bob McNeely, director of the
secretary Roger C. Altman, a political appointee White House photo office. So irate, in fact, that the

semng as interim chief of Resolution Trust White House nas cut off the magazine's access to

Mr. Bumpers also sent copies of the letter to su^ official photos. _
three Arkansans working in the White House- the The says “Deep Water: How the Presi-
chief of staff, Thomas F. ( Mack ) McLanv Jr and dent’s Men Tried 10 Hinder the Whitewater Inves-

William Kennedy 3d and the late Vincent W dgation." But the caption inside fails to note that

Foster Jr. of the counsel's office. the picture is of a routine scheduling meeting on

. Senator David H. Pryor lodged his own com- Nov - 9 - w*** W«e Whitewater had become a

plaint in July with Mr. Allman and a senior Trea- ma j® r,ssu \ .
sury aide, Joshua Steiner, about the “annaUiM” To put ■*“ photo 00 lhe COVCT ' out ° r 0011
waste of money and “abuse of power” bv govern M d not note in the caption when it was taken, is

ment attorneys in their attemptto recow Madi- outrageous, " said the White House press secretary,

son funds from Mr. Ward, a wealthy Arkansas 060 066 My*™- She complained in a letter to

business executive. Like Mr. Bumpera. Mr Prvor rxme ’ s editor « Jim Gaines, that the mag-

asked Mr. Airman io review the aamcv's’setde- mne 001 our pennission" to use a
mem with Mr. Ward, which required ton to return P ic * u ^_ thal “«? nfclrad your nadm.”
S340.000 in Madison funds to the aeenev A Time sp okesman, Robert Pondisao, said

The letters from Mr. Bumpers and Mr Prvor are thCTe was 110 intent 10 dcceive - retrospect it

the first indications that members of’ Congress ^ been a good idea to date that phota"

contacted political appointees in behalf of a prom- 5 e a CT ’^£ nL " But he a ? dcd -

inent constituent who has come under federal don 1 1hmk readers ^ Time ^ ewer

scrutinv in the Madison affair (Wp\ P hoto 15 going to be a representation of that

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6 States Defy Abortion Order Quote/ Unquote

WASHINGTON — At least a half-dozen states
say they that they are flouting a new federal order
to pay for abortions for low-income women in
cases of rape or incest. The Clinton administration
said there would be no immediate penalty for
violating the law, which went into effect this week.

Ray Hanley, the chairman of the State Medicaid
Directors’ Association, said that Arkansas, South

Kevin Parriott, executive director of the San
Diego County Republican Party in California,
where President Clinton was vacationing this past
week and where voters in the moneyed city of San
Diego preferred George Bush or Ross Perot by a
nearly >to-l margin: “Bill din ion coming to San
Diego is like Ronald Reagan going to Detroit or
Madison, Wisconsin.” (APj

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Tobacco Company Forced Researcher to Drop Report

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WASHINGTON — In 1983,
five years before the surgeon gener-
al declared that nicotine was an
addictive substance, researchers for
a tobacco company drew the same
conclusion. Their paper was ac-
cepted for publication in a scientif-
ic journal, but the company forced
the author to withdraw it, the jour-
nal’s editor says.

Hie study, which tested addic-
tion in rats, was done by Dr. Victor.
J. DeNobie, who was working at
the Philip Morris Companies, and
his colleagues, and was to be pub-
lished in, the jotmialPsychophar-
macdogy. Experts on nicotine and
addiction said the -paper , would
have been the first and best of its -
land at the time, an important ad-
dition to the research on the addic-
tive properties of nicotine.

Dr. Jack E. Hcnuingfidd, chief
of clinic al pharmacology research
at the National Institute on Drug
Addiction, a federal agency, said
the withdrawal of the paper from
publication “set the field back six
years at least before work like it
could be accomplished by Canadi-
an researchers."

The research paper was made
public Thursday at a hearing of the

House subcommittee on health and
the environment by its chairman.
Representative Henry A. Waxman,
Democrat erf California. It resulted
from research at the Philip Morris
Research Center in Richmond, Vir-
ginia. Not long after Mr. DeNobie
wrote the paper, and the company
forced him to withdraw it, he left
the company and, Mr. Waxman
said, the research group that pro-
duced it was dosed.

Philip Morris executives issued a
written statement saying that Mr.
DcNoble’s research in general had
not been censored, and some stud-
ies of nicotine by him were pub-
lished, but they would not com-
ment on the spaafiepaper released
by Mr.. Waxman. Efforts, to reach
Mr. DeNobie were unsuccessful
“M*. Waxman said that because
Philip Moms owned tire laboratory
and the researchers were its em-
ployees, aO the research was owned
by the company. He said there was
probably no legal requirement that
the company publish the study, but
there was a moral requirement to
do so.

The editor of the journal at die
time, Dr. Herbert Barry of the Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh, said it was
highly unusual for a purer to be
accepted and then withdrawn. He
said oe had not come forward be-

fore now because be considered it a
confidential matter, but he agreed
to confirm the facts once ap-
proached by the Food and Drug
Administration and Mr. Wa xman.

Tobacco companies maintain
that nicotine is not addictive, al-
though leading groups, including
the surgeon gcncraTs office, the
American Psychiatric Association
and the American Psychological
Association, have said that it meets
all the scientific tests for an addict-
ing substance. Other substances
that meet the tests include heroin,
cocaine and alcohol

“There is frankly no scientific
basis for saying nicotine is not ad-
dictive,” Mr. Henmngfield said.
“In fact, in three studies of people
addicted to other drugs, such as
heroin, the addicts were equally
motivated to get nicotine as to get
heroin. Their ability to quit, the
strength of the habit and their own
rating of their need fere nicotine
were as strong as for their addicting
drug.”

Nicotine's addictiveness, and
charges that cigarette companies
manipulate the amount of nicotine
in cigarettes to create and maintain
addiction, are tire bases for recent
statements by the Food and Drug
Administration that it is consider-
ing classifying cigarettes as a drug.

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Safer Banking? See Chicago Police

ember

By Don Terry

.Vo*- York Tima Service

CHICAGO — Inside tire 7th District police station,
just down tire hall from tire handcuffed gang member
and the battered wife with nowhere else to hide,
Shawna Jackson came to do her banking.

A few months ago, in an experiment to bring Jinan -
’ rial services to the poor and to cut down on tire
muggings that make the South Side police district one
; of Chicago’s toughest, tire city and a bank installed an

• automatic teller machine in the lobby of the police

■ station.

' But as it spits out $10 and 520 bills oyer the crackle

• of police radios, the money machine is much more

■ than a routine convenience. It is a symbol of hope in a
’ struggling neighborhood and a sign of how desperate
- and dangerous modem times have become.

, Muggers are robbing people at money machines
• T with increasing frequency, prompting banks and some

• cities to take unusual protective measures.

In Oakland, California, five Wells Fargo Bank
' branches have red emergency buttons that link us«s

• of the machines to tire police. And m Los Angeles, the

City Council has approved the installation of 30 auto-
matic tellers in police station lobbies.

But even in the station, surrounded by armed offi-
cers, Ms. Jackson clutched her purse as she scanned
the lobby for potential attackers.

“No matter where you are nowadays," she said,
“you got to be on your guard every minute."

These days, even if some people arc brave enough or
foolish enough to use an automatic teller in the 7th
■District, they might have a hard time finding one.
Only a few are left in the neighborhood. But then, few
residents have needed one. Nearly half the people live
below tire federal poverty level and the unemploy-
ment rare is 33 percent.

So far the Marquette National Bank automatic
idler has handled about 4S0 transactions a month,
well below the bank's target of 1,000. Part of tire
problem is that not many people know the station has
a money machine. District Commander Ronnie Wat-
son hopes to replace tire banner soon with a sign that
lights up at dusk.

“This is what community policing is all about,” he
said.

Gunmen in Washing!®
Open Fire on Market

AMSTERDAM

By Linda Wheeler
and Wendy Melillo

Washington Post Service

WASHINGTON — One person
was killed and at least eight were
wounded in a burst of gunfire m
the historic O Street Mwket m
Washington, the police said.

Shoppers ran from drehnUbJl
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ski masks got out of a

well as inside the doorway.

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Mayor Sharon Pratt Kdly; the
city administrator, Robert L Mal-
lei!, and the police chief, Fred
Thomas, visited the cbaotic scene.
Mr. Thomas said the victims
ranged in age from an infant to a
person over 60. One 15-year-old
boy, identified as Duwan A’Vant,
was pronounced dead at a hospital
but none of the other injuries ap^
peared to be life- threatening, police
and hospital officials said.

In a aty where homicides are an
almost daily occurrence, tire inci-
dent stood out as unusual

“1 don’t know of anytime when
we have had so many people shot in
one incident,” Mr. Thomas said.

The police chief, who toured the
scene of the shooting hours later,
said at least two gunmen stood just
inside the O Street entrance to tire
market and fired on a group stand-
ing just inride the door.

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security officers from an FBI build-
ing were among those shot.

The market, one of only two re-
maining city markets that served
Washington at the turn of the cen-
tury, is known for its inexpensive
fried dinners as well as reasonably
priced jeweliy and clothing.

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By Richard L. Berke

fJgw York Tima Sentce

WASHINGTON— A nonprofit
offshoot of the Republican Party
that was formed last year to seek
the ideas of ordinary Americans is
being financed by big corporations
and millionaires whose donations
are not subject to federal restric-
tions that apply to most political
groups.

Since its creation last June, the
organization, the National Policy
Forum, has been criticized by
groups that monitor campaign fi-
nances because it has refused 10
disclose tire identities of its donors.

But the forum’s own documents,
and those of the Republican Na-
tional Committee, show that in
hunting for money they derided
against mass mailings and instead
sought and received “hand commit-
men is" from giant corporations
like Philip Morris Companies Inc.,
Coca-Cola Co., United Parcel Ser-
vice, Edison Electric, the Pruden-
tial Insurance Company of Ameri-
ca, AT&T and American Standard.

Several associations were also
listed in the documents as having
made such commitments, including
the National Rifle Association, Na-
tional Association of Home-
builders, National American
Wholesale Grocers' Association
and National Cattlemen’s Associa-
tion.

While forum officials refused to
discuss these donors, officials at
some of the companies that had
been soh'rired confirmed that they
had contributed.

Although the Republican Party
chairman, Haley Barbour, billed
the forum as “a very participatory
program” when he announced its
formation, the documents, sup-
plied by a forma 1 party employee,
show that small donations were not
solicited by mail
Forum officials have said the
budget for their first year was
roughly 54 million. A budget docu-
ment mows the fund-raising plan
as follows: 5100,000 each from 15
individual or corporate
“founders”; 510,000 each from 100
major donors; 550,000 each from
20 corporate sponsors, and $15,000

from 20 association sponsors.
Republican Party officials say
tire money collected by tire organi-
zation is being used to attract new i
people into the party by holding 1
meetings around the nation.

... William E. Brock, a forma party
chairman who heads the policy fo-
rum's coordinating committee, said
officials feared that naming the do-
nors would arouse undue suspi-
cion.

Many people who were solicited
for the policy forum had already
oven large sums of money to tire
Republican Party, dotations that
are not subject to federal limits.

But because such political “soft
money" must be publicly reported,
some critics of the forum have con-
tended that it was set up as a non-
profit group so it could collect do-
nations that would not have to be
made public.

Mr. Barbour and Michael E
Baroody, tire forum's president,
played an important role in solicit-
ing tire wealthiest donors, accord-
ing to the documents.

Fred Wertheimer, president of
Common Cause, said such min-
gling of policy and politics was im-
proper.

^ 7

Lawmakers Lead a School- Prayer Drive _ -

By William Booth

Washington Pal Senict

WASHINGTON — Saying America’s youth
need to be guided by a higher purpose, hun-
dreds of legislators around the nation, from
black urban liberals in Washington to white
rural conservative in Mississippi, are seeking
to return prayer to public schools.

■Die movement has generated school prayer
legislation in the District of Columbia ana at
least six Southern states, including Vi rgin^
Georgia and Florida. Virginia has passed a bill
encouraging voluntary prayer and the others
are (Hi the verge of either mandating daily
moments of “quiet reflection" or allowing stu-
dents to lead prayers at pep rallies, sports
events and graduation ceremonies as well as
before and after class.

“It has nothing to do with being a liberal or
conservative, a Democrat or Republican, black
or white," said a Tennessee state senator, Don

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want the right to praya. They want that right
back again.”

In almost all cases, state chapters of the
American Gvil Liberties Union and affiliated
groups threaten to challenge the constitutional-
ity or the new laws, citing decades of Supreme
Court precedenL

But the lawmakers, asserting that UJS. public

education has lost its moral bearings, insist that
in a country where metal detectors are ubiqui-
tous in schools, students deserve the right to
hear the word “God” again.

Indeed, tire resurgence of school praya
seems to be one of a handful of “values issues”
being given renewed life by Republicans and
Democrats alike, including President Bill Gin-
ton.

The pending legislation not only ohatlenges
the separation of church and state but is bang
pushed by big-city liberal politicians as well as
by traditional members of the religious right.
The liberals include a Georgia state senator,
David Scott, a Democrat from Atlanta whose
other big issue this year is stricter gun control.

“There is now inis extraordinary need to
provide our young people with a way to look
mto themselves for strength and meaning," said
Mr. Scott, whose legislation calls for a manda-
tory minute erf “quiet reflection” al the begin-
ning of the school day. Critics say tire praya
bills are inspired more by election-year grand-
standing than real concern for America’s trou-
bled schools.

“There will be lawsuits," said James Tucker,
special project counsel for the ACLU of Ala-
bama, where a school praya bill was passed
unanimously last year. “We're jost looting for
the best case."

Tennessee also overwhelmingly passed legis-
lation last year to let students initiate and lead

prayers at school events. Mississippi Georgia
and Florida are on tire verge of securing similar
measures, while Virginia already has done so.

In the District of Columbia, a majority of
D.C. council members have said they support
legislation that would allow students to pray in
the classroom.

“With all this violence and other problems,”
said council member Marion S. Barry, “we need
to get back to hying to allow those who want to
pray to do it ft may set a moral tone at the
schools.”

Proponents of allowing praya in schools say
that they are acting less from political expedi-
ency than from deep concern that society is out
of whack.

“We're bringing bade to our children the
recognition that there is a place for spiritual
and moral enlightenment," said a Florida state
representative. Beryl Burke, a Democrat who
represents a mostly black Miami neighbor-
hood.

The school prayer movement has been re-
newed by a recent federal appeals court deri-
sion and protests by principals and students
across the region.

There are' about 12,000 Bible clubs now
meeting in public schools. Last year, about 1 J
million students partiripaied at praya rallies at
public schools, according to Christian legal
action groups.

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Away From Politics

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ings time Sunday when clocks are turned
ahead one hour at 2 A.M. in each time zone.
There will be no time change in Arizona,
Hawaii and parts of In diana, which remain
on standard time an year.

• A defendant charged in the conspiracy to
blow up New York City landmarks pleaded

guilty to the charges against. The defendant,
Earl Gant, a Philadelphia street vendor, was
accused of agreeing to help get explosives in
the foiled plot to blow up the United Nations
buildings, two highway tunnels and other
public buildings last year.

• Tbe United States win soon begin accepting
applications for an ammal lottery of 55,000 of
its coveted green card work pennies. Applica-
tions can be made throughout June. Tbe
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annual lottery will distribute nearly 25,000
green cards to i mm i gran ts from Europe and
the forma Soviet Unicoi, 20,200 to Africans,
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• Three months after Anne Scripps Dourias,
an heiress to a newspapa fortune, was blud-
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*

Botb Sides Denounce Force for Hebron

; By Clyde Haberman

i Aliw York Times Soviet

' JERUSALEM — A planned
farce of lightly armed foreign ob-
servers to patrol Hebron was criti-
cized Friday by many Israelis as
going too far and by Palestinians as
not going far enough.

I Palestinians across the political
spectrum dismissed the agreement
on a temporary force of 160 Nor-
wegians, Danes and Italians as a
palliative that will not provide real

K ction for residents of the West
town.

! What is required following the
Feb. 25 massacre by an Israeli set-
tler, they said, is the evacuation of
the 450 Jewish settlers living there
among more than 80,000 Palestin-
ians. As for the observers, many
Palestinians waved off their pres-
ence as pointless, especially after
learning from officials here that
only 60 will actually go on patrol
while the 100 others will be admin-
istrators and office workers.

“They don’t have any weapons
except writing reports,” Sheikh
Mohammed Kafrawi told Muslim

tional forces sent to Bosnia, he

said: '‘Did they prevent crimes
against Muslims? No, they didn’t.”

Umversi'

tegicSt

Similarly unhappy were many Is-
raelis, especially on the political

right They denounced the

reached

s Jafee Center Tor Stra- ate us on this one da)' in the year,”
said a Christian woman as soldiers

Maslim-Christian Tezraon ggSLTSSi“JE

Israeli troops barred Muslims Muslim holy month.

worshipers at midday prayers on
Mosqi

Friday at the A1 Aqsa Mosque in
Jerusalem. Referring to intema-

ment reached Thursday by Israel
and the Palestine Liberation Orga-
nization as a capitulation on a mat-
ter that bad been almost an article
of faith here since the West Bank
and Gaza Strip were captured in
the 1967 Middle East war.

Until now, Israel had never per-
mitted an armed international
presence in the territories. The ac-
cord, rightist leaders warned, sets a
precedent that will undermine Is-
raeli sovereignty and pave the way
for more foreign forces elsewhere
in the West Bank and Gaza, and
ultimately Jerusalem.

Some Israeli critics also can-
tioned that unpredictable events —
the shooting or kidnapping of an
observer, for example — could cre-
ate hard feelings that damage Isra-
el's relations with the countries
f o rm in g the force.

“You start processes that can
spin out of control, especially on
the ground,” said Do re Gold, a
defense specialist with Tel Aviv

from Jerusalem's Via Dolorosa cm
Good Friday amid modi tension,
but Christians retracing the tradi-
tional last steps of Jesus said their
joy at bang in the Holy Land over-
rode fear, Reuters reported.

faaeii security forces were out in
force in the Old City to prevent
clashes between Christians. Mus-
lims and Jews following five weeks
of Arab- Israeli violence triggered
by the Hebron massacre of Muslim
worshipers.

Soldiers used clubs to beat back
Muslims gong to noon prayers at
AI Aqsa Mosque while Jews gath-
ered at the Wailing Wall below for
the end of their Passover holiday.

“We cannot wait any longer, we
will miss our midday prayers, let us
pass,'* shouted an old Arab man,
echoing cries from a group of Mus-
lims who use the Via Dolorosa
route to reach the mosque. The
soldiers ignored their pleas.

'‘During Ramadan these streets
were jammed with Muslims, we
couldn't walk, why can’t they toler-

en

Christian pilgrims carried wood-
i crosses and sang hymns while

walking in the rain to the tradition-
al site of Jesos’s tomb in the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Some wore black armbands to
mourn victims of the Hebron mas-
sacre. The Assembly of the Catho-
lic Ordinaries of the Holy Land
called Friday for the removal of
Jewish settlers from the territories
to achieve a lasting peace.

In an Easter message, it said:
“The settlers have condemned
themselves. They have shown that
they cannot co-exist with others.
Therefore, they must go else-
where."

Violence over the Hebron kill-
ings did not dissuade many tourists
from around the world from visit-
ing boly sites.

Catholics and Protestants from
Egypt joined in the Good Friday
procession for the first time since
the 1978 Camp David peace treaty
between Egypt and Israel was
signed.

Troops Go
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Serbs Slay 19 in Bosnia Town

Revenge Killings May Spur Mass Evacuation

By David B. Otcaway

Washington Past Serrice

bodies that set off the attacks on the non-Serbian

Batten

DURBAN, South Africa —
South African troop reinforce-
ments moved into die Zulu heart-
land of Natal on Friday to enforce
a state of emer g ency declared by
President Fredenk w. de Klerk.

Chief Mangosuthu Butheleri,
whose power base is in the prov-
ince, which includes the KwaZulu
black homeland, renewed his criti-
cism of the measures but said he
was willing to go ahead with

planned peace talks next week.
KwaZulu i

In the ,

lilal, Uhmdi,

a capital.

Chief Butheleri said (hat if the dis-

JAPAN: Tokyo Counters U.S. Report With a Trade Broadside of Its Own

Korean Carmakers Lash Out at U.S.

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worried that the report would lead to its use,”
he said.

In fact, the annual report to Congress starts a
1 80-day countdown for Tokyo to remove barri-
ers or face punitive tariffs an exports to the
United States in line with the Super 301 trade
provision.

Washington's ninth annual National Trade
Estimate, noting that Tokyo's surplus with the
United States had grown bySlO billion to $60.4
billion in 1993, said: “The barrier* in Japan to
imports of manufactured goods and services far
exceed the barriers of other Group of Seven
nations and place an unacceptable burden on
the global trading system.”

Japanese officials said the American report
was politically motivated and appeared to have

been written prior to Japan’s latest
concerning government procurement of tele-
communications and medical equipment

“Any approach using (he 'Japan is unique’
theory is fundamentally unfounded and is a
major problem in terms of the important rela-
tions of trust between Japan and the United
States.” said Kishichiro Amea, deputy spokes-
man for the Foreign Ministry.

“They’re basing their behavior on obsolete
information at best,” said Noboru Hata-
keyama, an adviser to the Long-Tom Credit
Bank of Japan who was the Trade Ministry's
top negotiator until last year. “If the U.S. keeps
doing this, Japan will become fed up and not

move, and the deterioration of relations might
spin over into nontrade areas.”

South Korean carmakers criticized Frida)* as
“incomprehensible” a U.S. report that accused
South Korea of setting up barriers against pur-
chases of foreign autos. The Associated Press
reported from Seoul.

Smith Korea was one of 35 countries listed in
the 281-page report released by the U.S. gov-
ernment tins week.

The report said that the 10 percent import
duty imposed on foreign cars by Seoul was
restrictive compared with the 25 percent duty
in the United States. Seoul said it should not be
singled out because the 10 percent import duty
was on a par with that levied by European
countries.

cussions next week “do not come
up with something that win make it
possible for us to participate in the
elections, even at this late stage,
then of course we will continue to
play the role of bang opposed to
the status quo as set out after the
elections.”

His rejection of the election,
which be says will not deliver the
autonomous' Zulu state he see k s,
has fed tension in the region. About
300 people were lolled there last
month.

Chief Butheiezl the leader of the
Zulu-based inkatba Freedom Par-
ty. has previously said that he does
not rule out participation in the
elections on the condition that they
are postponed “a month or two.”
an option ruled out by Mr. de
Klerk and Chief Buthekzfs main
black rival. Nelson Mandela, the
leader of the African National
Congress. The elections are to be
held April 26 to 28.

The meeting next week on vio-
lence and constitutional disputes is
due to bring Chief Buthdezi, Mr.
Mandela, Mr. de Klerk and Zulu
Kin g Goodwill Zwdithini together
for the first time. It was originally
set for Iasi Wednesday, but was
postponed after violence erupted
during an Tnknrha march through

ay period, killing

and 1 Croats in revenge for the death of six Serbian
police officers in fighting elsewhere, according to
United Nations officials here.

Some dderlv people were burned alive in then-
homes and others were killed by hand grenades
thrown at them as Serbs tor* out their rage on
Muslims and Croats, said Kris Janowski, a spokesman
for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in
Sarajevo.

The faitrngs may have finally convinced internation-
al relief agencies working in Bosma-Herzegovina that
10.000 non-Serbs living in and around Prijedor may all
have to be evacuated in what would be the largest
single such operation of the war.

“These people obviously have to be tak e n out,” said
Mr. Janowski

He said a protection officer of the UN refugee

H ed from some neighborhoods to avoid tbe rampaging
Serbs.

“Tbe situation is very tense and extremely alarm-
ing,” Mr. Janowski said. “We certainty don’t role out
more violence in the coming days.”

The bodies of the six Serbian police officers, killed
in fighting against the Muslim-led Bosnian Army in
central Bosnia, were returned to Prijedor early tins
week. UN offiriak believe it was the right of the

ITALY: Rightist Praises Mussolini CHINA:

Dissident Held

JOBS: Good News for Worker Translates to Fears for Financial Markets Jobarmesburg on Monday

J A company of about 15

Continued from Page 1

rates would decline and price would rise —
were caught short and dumped tbe bonds on
the market. This further depressed prices and
increased interest rates, or yields.

Second, small investors who had bought
bonds because they yielded far more than their
bank certificates of deposit got out of the mar-
ket or sat on the sidelines with their cash,
waiting for interest rates to get even better.

But that meant less money was going into tbe
market to support stock prices, which even
brokers admitted were getting too high for the
dividends the stocks were paying. A strong
economy, like the cate evidenced by Friday’s
figures, will mean even higher interest rates "as
the bond market anticipates the Fed’s neat
move — which means stocks become still less

attractive, resulting in still less money for the
stock market

So the question for the financial markets now
is not whether but when the Fed will move next
to raise its federal funds rate, the rate on over-
night loans of reserves among American banks.
The rate now stands at 3.50 percent and is

expected to go to at least 4 percent by year-end.
Michael Stra

Strauss, chief economist at Yamai-
chi International said, “If they were smart
lay.” then added. “If

they’d go up 50 points today,'
they were really smart, they would have started
tightening in November.”

But others say it’s not as simple as that, as tbe
Fed is tr ending a fine line in trying to slow
inflation before it speeds up, but without tip-
ping the economy back into a recession.

“The Fed is looking at the right balance
between demand in the economy and the sup-

ply of labor and industrial capacity.” Mr. Sinai
said. “By acting ahead of the game before
inflation takes hold, it is taking a new approach
with a risk of errors, miscalculations and a lack
of understanding of its policies.”

Mr. Wyss added: “To avoid the classic
boom-and-bust scenario, the Fed has to contin-
ue to make its small steps in tightening and not
make a mistake. As long as they don't panic, I
think it will work.”

He said he expected the Fed. in effect, to
follow the market and decide to raise rates
a gain only after it was sure that the latest
employment data were not a fluke. For that it
will have to wait at least for next week's first
reports of Easier retail sales and reports from
purchasing manager s nf large industrial compa-
nies about the state of the economy.

^ —

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company of about 150 troops
had reached Natal from Bloemfon-
tein in tbe Orange Free State by
Friday morning and two more
companies were due to arrive by
Sunday, said a military spokes-
woman, Captain Kim van Niekerk.

Mr. de Klerk declared the state
of emergency on Thursday, saying
that regular police powers were not
enough to ensure the country’s first
all-race elections went ahead in
NataL

The police said fire people were
killed in overnight violence in the
Natal- KwaZulu region.

Emergency regulations pub-
lished Friday gave security forces
the power to detain people without
charge for up to 30 days, use “nec-
essary force” to maintain order,
and search people and premises
without a warrant.

The rules bar unauthorized mili-
tary t rainin g- prohibit the display
of weapons or potentially danger-
ous objects, including traditional
Zulu spears and fighting sticks, and
set strict conditions for marches
and rallies.

Continu ed from Page 1

Fini seemed to abandon the cau-
tious appr oach to Mussolini that
characterized his election cam-
paign.

While he ag ain stressed that “we
have consigned to history a judg-
ment of Fascism and anti-Fas-
rism.” be was also asked to evalu-
ate Mussolini, who ruled Italv from
1923 to 1943.

“1 would still say that he is the
greatest statesman of the century,”
Mr. Fini said, adding that Mr. Ber-
lusconi “will have to pedal if he
wants to show that be belongs to
history Hkc Mussolini."

“Two identical men are not born
in a year, not even in a century.”
said Mr. Fini. who is 41

Mussolini turned Italy into a dic-
tatorship , embarked on disastrous
colonial adventures in Africa and
allied himself with Hitler. But, fol-
lowing the collapse of Fascism and
the end of the World War H, a
group of his followers banded to-
gether in Italy, where Fascism is
ill egal to found the Italian Social
Movement, to keep Mussolini’s
memory and ideology alive.

Mr. Fmi and his supporters
chang ed the name of the Italian
Social Movement to the National
Alliance earlier tins year. One of its
successful candidates in the ejec-
tion was Mussolini’s granddaugh-
ter, Alcssandra Mussolini who
won a parliamentary seat in Naples
on the neofascist ticket.

“The fact that he chose to say
this today shows be still regards
Mussolini as a model for the fu-
ture,” said Claudio Petrucrioll a
spok esman for the Democratic Par-

ty of the Left, the forma* Commu-
nists, which lost this week’s elec-
tion. “We all know what the state
of freedom was in this country
when the ‘greatest statesman of the
century was in power."

Mr. Berlusconi made no immedi-
ate co mment on his ally’s remark.
The magnate sought to distance
himself from the neofascists earli er
this week when, on Monday night,
he cast his vote in Rome's old Jew-
ish ghetto. However, the gesture
met only with skepticism and pro-
test

The presence of neofascists in
tbe new Italian lineup has caused
worries both in Italy and elsewhere.

“For a half-ceuttuy, the West
has been govern ed by principles
that arose from the end of World
War IL” a column by Bernardo
Vaili said in Friday’s La Repubb-
lica. “Our country will be the first
since then to have a government
including neofasdsts or postfas-
cists in this privileged part of the
world.”

I talian newspapers reported For-
eign Minister Klaus Kinkd of Ger-
many as saying Friday that Bonn
found the riseof Italy’s right “mild-
ly alarming ,” reflecting concern
that German extreme rightists led
by a former Nazi SS officer, Franz
SchSnhufaer, would draw encour-
agement from developments in Ita-
ly. Greece's minis ter for European
affairs, Theodoras Pangalos, was
quoted as saying it was “worrying.”

In the La Stampa interview,
however, Mr. Fini denied that his
party had links with European
rightists. “Nothing links tbe Italian
right to those in Germany or
France,” be said.

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This practice, which dates from the start of the Bosni-
an conflict two years ago this month, has come to be
known as “ethnic cleansing.”

The kfflings have brought interoauonal rebel agen-
cies to the point where they are reluctantly coming to
the conclusion that a mass evacuation of the non-
Serbian population around Prijedor may be warrant-
ed, even if they are accused by the Bosnian govern-
ment rind b irrann rights groups of abe t t ing the Serbs in
the ahnttM j eansing campaign in northern Bosnia.

There are about 6,000 Muslims and 3,000 Croats
still living in and around Prijedor, as well as several
hundred Gypsies. Three villages housing 1,000 people
outside Prijedor, and tbe entire Muslim community
there, had already asked the UN refugee agency for
evacuation.

“We are dose to it. but that would be the last
resort,” said Robert Monin, head of the Geneva-based
International Red Cross mission in Sarajevo.

Mr. Janowski sad the Croats also had appealed to
Pope Paul n to be evacuated. The UJS. ambassador to
tbe Vatican, Raymond Flynn, visited Sarajevo on
Friday and was told by President Aina Izetbegovic of
the deteriorating situation for Musfims in northern
Bosnia, Sarajevo radio reported.

The Red Cross bad been urgently presang leaders
of tbe Bosnian Serbs to assure protection of the
minorities in their areas and had been given assur-
ances that tins would be done, Mr. Monin said.

Contmned from Page 1

the period in which bis political
rights remain suspended after the
completion of his prison sentence.

Mr. Wei, who has received such
warnin gs in the past, has said he
would defy “unreasonable” restric-
tions on Ins freedom and contacts
with foreigners.

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day that any U.S. move to strip
China of its most-favored-nation
trading status could have “disas-
trous” consequences for both na-
tions, Reuters reported from Wasb-
xngton.

The report said that Chinese ex-
ports to the United States could be
cat by 42 percent to 96 percent if
Mr. Clinton derided not to renew
the preferential status.

U-S, consumers could pay S14
billion a year more for costlier sub-
stitutes for Chinese products or to
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be imposed on Chinese goods.

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MFN loss is likely to be closer to
the lower boundary, but even that
is a substantial dislocation of
trade,” said Rajiv LaH senior econ-
omist at tbe bank's China depart-
ment and the report’s main author.

The document warned that the
impact of any loss in the trading
status could Tange “from the dra-
matic to the disastrous,” such as
halving or eliminating Chinese
clothing exports to tbe United
States. It also called on China to
liberalize trade policies by catting
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North Korea Defies
UN on Its Call for
Nuclear Inspections

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 2-3, 1994

Page 5

Compiled by o„. Staff Frm Dupatchet

v ^ NIT] Sr NAT10 NS, New
v?i,'^ Dc0ant **« of China,
North Korea says the Security
Council s statement on its nuclear
dispute will make no difference in
m its refusal to allow more inspec-
tions of its atomic plants

“We have fulfilled our obliga-
tions on the agreement between the
Internationa] Atomic Energy
Agenw and the Democratic Peo-
ple s Republic of Korea," said
North Korea's chief UN delegate.
Pak Gil Yon, “The issuance of even
a statement will not help at all in
the solution of the nuclear issues.
We have nothing more to show to
the IAEA inspectors at this stage."

In response to this reaction.
South Korea s foreign minister
Han Sung Joo, said: “North Korea
will have to respond because the
Seomty Council will be watching
and there will be further consider-
ation if there is no progress."

On Friday, speaking on the NBC
News program “Today," Mr. Han

. '."W® are not disappointed.
This is a very good move."

“We have the Chinese on
board," he said. “‘Wbat the UN
statement does is to open doors to
create new opportunities to bring
the negotiations on track."

The Security Council > g y v ed a
mild call to North Korea on Thurs-
day night to allow the nuclear agen-
cy to complete inspections of a sus-
pect nuclear plant, after the United
States yielded to China's rqection
of any tougher measure.

The council issued a nonbinding

r ial to North Korea to permit
International Atomic Energy
Agency to finish inspecting a nucle-
ar laboratory near Pyongyang. The
agency reported two weeks ago that

North Korea had blocked its in-
spectors from making key tests
there, so they could not determine
whether plutonium had been se-
cretly divened from the plant.

The United States, with the sup-
port of Russia, France and Britain,
had pushed the council to put the
admonition in a UN resolution,
which has the weight of interna-
tional law. China, the only major
ally of the Communist regime in
Pyongyang, strongly opposed it

But a senior U.S. official said
Washington “is pleased in form
and substance" with the action be-
cause it represented the unanimous
opinion or the 15-nation council,
including China. The Security
Council cannot issue a formal
statement unless it is unanimous.

The United States also persuad-
ed China to accept stronger lan-
guage than Beijing wanted. The
statement sets a deadline of about

Mother Sets
Crusade to
Halt Caning
In Singapore

Co/HpUedfy Ota Staff From Dispatches

NEW YORK — The mother of
an American says she will begin a
last-ditch crusade, including seek-
ing a meeting with President Bill
Clm ton, to save her son from a
caning for vandalism in Singapore.

But theyouth’s father said he fell
the chances of success were virtual-
ly zero, that the case had become a
political issue to send a signal to
Singaporeans about “decadent
Western ways” and that the out-
come was preordained.

The teenager. Michael Peter Fay,
IS, faces six lashes on his bare but-
tocks with a rauan, a 4-foot-long
(1.2-meter) bamboo rod wielded by
a martial arts expert, after a Singa-
pore court on Thursday rejected his
appeal against the sentence for at
least 16 acts of van dalism , includ-
ing spraying paint on cars.

Singapore denies that the youth

•_ . - , _ hiuiuuiuib uwuu uuu uiu yuuui

axweeks for the nuclear agency to has been singled out because he is
report back on whether the rnspeo an American or that the case is
Pons are completed and whethw political, saying 12 Singaporeans
North Korea ism compliance with have been caned ^vandalism

international safeguards.

It calls on North Korea to re-
sume talks with the United States

since 1989.

Mr. Fay has confessed to spray-
painting cars and throwing eggs at

and with South Korea, which were 55F3BE He v£s soared to
broken off after the inspections four months hi prison and six
fatted. The council committed itself lashes with a rattan cane, a punish-
J® further consideration” of the menl that results in permanent
issue if necessary “to achieve full scars and usually sends prisoners
implementation" of international into shock.

nuclear agreements.

American officials rejected sug-

Mr. Clinton, calling the punish-
ment extreme, has asked Singapore

ges lions that they had caved in to to reconsider.

China, calling Thursday’s move a a State Department spokesman,
building block toward further ac- Mike McCuny, said Washington

non.

Defense Secretary William J.
Perry said Friday that the UN

regretted the appeal court's deci-
sion.

“We continue to believe the can-

AMERICAN

TOPICS

N.Y.Taxi Owners
Are Told to Shape Up

The New York City Taxi and

I imnnsine. Commissi on has reject-
ed a request by the owners of taxi-
cab fleas for their Bret fare in-
crease in four years. The
commission says the owners of the
Q'ty's 11,787 ydiow cabs are pro-
viding poor service and depriving
drivers of a fair share of the profits.

Before any increase is approved,
the commission says, taxi owners
will have to agree to. a sweeping set
of improvements, such as giving

drivers raises and better English
classes and allowing only new cars
to be bought for taxis.

' “The answer is no to a fare in-
crease," said Fidel F. Del Valle, the
commission's chairman, “because
we have poorer drivers, worse
cabs, and even worse service."

The current fare is an initial
meter rate of $1.50 and then 25
cents for each one-fifth of a mile
(about one-third of a kilometer).

Before 1979, drivers and own-
ers checked the meter at the end
of the shift and split the proceeds
approximately in half. Now, own- i
ers lease taxis to drivers for the
day, charging from $85 to $ 100. If
the weather is bad or traffic un-
usually congested, the driver risks
losing' money, while the owner is
guaranteed his lease income.

“What we are trying to do
now,” Mr. Del Valle said, “is cor-
rect a 15-year imbalance that has
favored toe owners.”

This, he said, had led to a 40
percent annual turnover in driv-
ers and an influx of immigrants
who usually cannot drive well, do
not know the city and have trou-
ble speaking English.

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A HIGH-TECH INFANTRYMAN — A sokfier demonstrating the prototype gear of the 21st century’s foot soldier during a recent
tfispby of tiie UJ5. Army’s digital technology at Fort Irwin, Cafifornia. The forward infantry soldier win be equipped with backpack
computer, heat-sensing sights and a minicamera on Us helmet to give rear commanders a view of the battlefield.

Beijing Places Stability
Ahead of Nuclear Issue

By Patrick E. Tyler

New York Times Service

BEIJING — China's policy to-
ward North Korea’s nuclear pro-
gram reflects concern that econom-
ic sanctions on the North, and a
possible military conflict that they
could provoke, would threaten Chi-
na's economic and political stabil-
ity, Chinese and Western analysts
say.

China does not want North Ko-
rea to become a nuclear power, but
the risk of even a conventional war
over the issue is of much graver
concern to Beijing, these analysts
say.

“We in the West focus on the
nuclear issue,” said a Western ana-
lyst, “but the Chinese, because they
are residents in the neighborhood,
not only are genuinely concerned
that North Korea not acquire a
nuclear weapons capability, but
also are extremely interested in
avoiding a breakdown in the re-
gime or in provoking the regime to
the point that it lashes out militari-
ly"

The contradiction between Chi-
na's desire to keep the Korean Pen-
insula free of nuclear weapons and
its unwillingness to confront its
longtime ally is frustrating China's
friends and irritating its critics.

Some analysts in Beijing say that
China sees North Korea's defiance
over the inspection of its nuclear
sites as a way for President Kim II

statement showed diplomacy was ing ^ excessive penalty for a
working, but that a final resolution youthful, nonviolent offender who 1 ' ■ ■
was far away. (Reuters, WP) pleaded guilty to reparable crimes

„ _ Tf, CafSa’fiTS, Hungary Appl

es Stability To Join the EU,

* his court appeals His final hope for r» ..

clear Issue Singapore's president Ong Tong SoCUttty

Cheona. who has demenev Dowers.

c t ^ Mr. Fay’s motheTffiyauin, ATHOJS— Hungary on!

Sung to shore up his power. They said she and her former husband, became the first former Sow
say it allows the 81-year-old leader George Fay. would ask Mr Ong for comriiy to apply for member
to justify mobilization at home that clemency. She said she wanted to the European Union, sayin
diverts attention from a collapsing mBel ^ Clinton to ask him to was the only way to ensure it
economy and a crisis in confidence “look toward the Singaporeans rity and integrity,
in his ruling circle over the succcs- asking for compassion.” “The most important

sion battle that is looming. George Fay of Dayton, Ohio, about this accession is that

Short Takes

Genetic profiling, formerly
called genetic fingerprinting, is
spreading through the U^. justice
system, the syndicated columnist
Michael Schrage reports. With
only a single hair, a flake of dan-
druff, a drop of saliva or a bead of
sweat to go on, investigators can
positively identify, or completely
exonerate, a suspect based on the
idiosyncrasies of the person's
DNA — deoxyribonucleic add,
the molecular basis of heredity
omnipresent throughout the
body. Violent felons, Mr. Schrage
suggests, should be required to
submit to DNA sampling — a

drop of blood or a saliva swab will
suffice — which would go on file
along with their fingerprints and
mug shots.

Do opera singers have to be fat?
No, but some of them need to be
of generous proportions. “It de-
pends on the type of repertoire
they sing.” Natalie Limonick, a
Los Angeles voice coach, told The
Washington Post. A Wagnerian
soprano cannot be svelte — “It’s
not that she needs to be fat. but
she needs some body capacity,
some muscles in order to get past
that huge orchestra." She needs a
large rib cage and a strong dia-
phragm and back muscles. “It's

really not the size of the body so
much as the size of the vocal
mechanism, the throat particular-
ly." Miss Limonick said.

Wmhun Gladstone, the 19th-
century British prime minister,
said that the first requisite of the
job is to be a good butcher. “Like
British leaden,” Maureen Dowd
notes in The New York Times.
“American presidents must know
when they have reached the limits
of loyalty, and be prepared to cut
off troublesome friends and ad-
visers, or persuade them to fall on
the knife so obligingly held out.”
Ms. Dowd notes that “President
Clinton has been sacrificing

friends and advisers at a rather
brisk pace since he came to
town.” By comparison, George
Bush usually “timed out all criti-
tistrt” of subordinates, and “it
could be argued that this very
quality led to his down/ all" Ms.
Dowd recalls that when an aide
told Governor Earl Long of Loui-
siana, Tm with you when you're
right. Governor, but not when
you're wrong,” Mr. Long retort-
ed, approximately, “You stupid
so-and-so, I don't need you when
I'm right.”

Arthur Higbee

To’jbintfwEij 68 Doisneau, Paris’s Photographer, Dies

/>« . i r» • . The Associated Press

Citing oecurity PARIS _ Roberl Doisneau, 81,

Raaen whose intimate, often poignam pic-

ATHENS — Hungary on Friday became some of

became the first formerSoviet-bloc

country to apply Tor membership in <n.r

the Einopean Union, saying this Hc ^^rwent beart bypass sur-
.< 'TTlV" . L__, gery a few months ago and died of

was the only way to ensure its seal- b j , _ 4 „

wsL. ra“£r rtB,,B

abouuhis accession is lhal UwiU

oar course toward Europe .SfifJ

a young couple stealing a kiss out- he had captured. He courteously was naturalized in 1954. his
ride the Paris Gty Hall as people wrote back each one, telling them ish citizenship effectively nil
around them swirl by indifferently, that they were right. extradition to Belgium.

side the Pans Uty Hail as people
around them swirl by indifferently.

The spontaneous nature of that _ _

photograph — reproduced in post- Leon Degrelle^ 87, Belgian Bffl Travers, 72, F ilm Actor

ers, postcards, coffee mugs and on Who Sided With Germany Who Starred in ‘Born Free’

T-shirts — was stripped away dur- BRUSSELS (AP) — Leon De- _ _ XTri „ .

mg a legal dispute last year when a greUe. 87. Belgium's foremost cd- LONDON (NYT) — Bill Tra-

re tired couple claimed that they laborator with the German occupy- vers ' 'A who played the tallest,
were the young lovers. ing forces and an unrepentant strongest man m the Scottish Higb-

To defend himself in a court case admirer of Adolf Hitler, died landsm the 1956 film “Wee Geor-
that followed — the couple claimed Thursday in Spain, almost 40 yean « c and became star 10 yean
to seek recognition, not money — after his native country had sen- Pterin Bora Free, died Tuesday
Mr. Doisneau was forced to admit tenced him to death. at “f home m Dorking, England,

that he used mrxlels for the photo. Mr. Degrelle, who founded a fas- soulh of London.

The court rebuffed the lawsuit, cast party and rode it to electoral He died in his sleep, according to

Bill Travers, 72, Film Actor
Who Starred in ‘Bom Free’

Raising the level of confront*- said: “I don’t fed any real hope, make our course toward Europe cMdrenTworten and

tion will only spur Mr. Kim to new It's got into the political arena. Ev- final and assure the^secunty and ■ TWonners
heights of defiance, these analysts erything we did up to now, like GmajSsSf Evenwhen posed, his black-and-

say- gp“S through the appeals process. Master whitfi phoUMseemcd w freeze a

“Are the Chinese right in saying almost swots Idee its a farce. the Greek foreitm minister for Eu- natural poignant instant of anony-

that we cannot push North Korea He added, “I have evoy reason mous real Ufe. “I am photograph-

loo far, too fastr asked an analyst to beheve at this point that it was ^^^a^ Th^lonM Panga ^escr™

*Tm not sure we know the answer." utody prconkunecL” JS My

For now, the- Chinese arc likely Smpmiatomr m Wash- „ ouId _

to stick to a path that sees' inaction mgton, has received “any letters ^ app ii cat j 0n on to his EU col- h

as a useful tool many analysts be- JSLaKEJ 1 * snpportlIlg *** leagues in Luxembourg on April

that he used models for the photo.
The court rebuffed the lawsuit

heve.

At the same time, China is quiet-
ly stepping up its diplomatic cam-
paign to persuade North Korea
that its best future lies in economic
reform, political opening and a nu-
clear-free military strategy. West-
ern and Chinese officials said the
number of high-level North Kore-
an delegations traveling to Beijing
had increased in recent months.

The Chinese mili tary has also

caning decision. . y

. .... . . . 18. He has overseen accords to en-

Amenca should be taking les- large the Union to 16 stales in Jan-
sons from Singapore on how to ygjy 1995, with Austria, Sweden,
prevent crime had the line Norway and Finland joining,
don t give in, said a letter from . , . .

J^JSdludShiS

Chin Hock Seng, first secretary

at the embassy, said that more ihan

mglittle»c T ofame,"be l oldlbe

presidency until Juiy.

Mr. Pan gal os said he would pass f -

Ie^S ,I b l tS^baira i on U Amfl “ The M Gvf H a u -'’ P,cau 8 ht
nS^USSHSJkS^ that spiriL Taken in 1950, it shows

An appellate hearing is set fa June success in the 1930s, headed the
14. The couple. Jean-Louis and Walloon Legion, a Belgian unit in

Denise Lavergne, said Friday that
they would carry on with their law-
suit.

Before the lawsuit, Mr. Doisneau
regularly received mail from people
claiming that they were the lovers

at his home in Dorking, En gland,
south of London.

He died in his sleep, according to
the Born Free Foundation, the ani-
mal chanty with which he was asso-
ciated. He married his 00-star in

the German Army during the war. dated. He married his 00-star in
Condemned to death fa col- “Bom Free,” Virginia McKenna,
laboration on Dec. 29, 1944, he in 1957. The couple increasingly
escaped to Spain and the protec- devoted their lives to animal wel-
tion of a rightist leader, Generalis- fare and in particular campaigned
simo Francisco Franco. After he against keeping animals in zoos.

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been received from Americans in omy has changed a lot, but m order Mnzak, Easy-Listening and

By the 1930s, the North American ac concept remains the same — meats connoting inherited concepts
subsidiary Wired Radio Inc. was music as a kind of aural wallpaper, of how heaven sounds.”
transmitting to homes, first over there but not there. Suffice it to say, he fails to con-

electrical wires and them, because \xm surveys the entire field of vince. And in the end, despite the
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impress on them the benefits of
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“But the Chinese are not sure the
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there is a lot of frustration m deal-
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A Chicago Tribune columnist, Unitm’s mtexgoveramental confa- „ ,

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quilizers — one of those products create programming that would fos-
desigued to smooth the rough edges ier different moods at different
we once took for granted as part of times of the day. Progr ams designed

dooed attempts to sign up home
customers — why would people pay
fa what they were already receiving
free via radio? — and begin to con-
centrate on “ small businesses —
mostly restaurants and hold dining
rooms.” Squierdied in 1934, but not
before coining the term Muzak, a
combination of music and Kodak,
to replace Wired Radio.

From early on Muzak strove 10

those long

tone article — one of
ew Yorker pieces con-

MYSTERY THEME By Ernie Furtado

ACROSS 58 Say it again?

I “My Life as " 60 Transcript fig-

(1985 film) ures, for short

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112 Co-star for
Marlene

113 Van — r

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Bologna

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old Hollywood 118 See msmicuons
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Rabbit

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42 Spitfire fliers:

Abbr.

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competitors, derivatives and sib-
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Muzak, I-inzfl writes, was the
creation of one Brigadier General
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mers have refined the concept, add-
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kinds of music and introduced'
once-forbidden instruments (such
as the electric guitar). Still the ba-

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Back on Track to Peace

Thursday's agreement in Cairo between Isra-
el and the Palestine liberation Organization
promises to recapture the lost momentum to-
ward peace. The two sides agreed to resume
peace talks, deploy international monitors in
troubled Hebron and speed the Israeli troop
withdrawals from Gaza and Jericho as provid-
ed in the September framework peace accords.

Extremists on both sdes protested. Mili-
tant Palestinians object that some 450 Jewish
settlers are still permitted to live amid the
80,000 Arabs of the Hebron area. Hard-line
Israelis worry about the precedent set by ad-
mitting outside observers to territory where
Israel claims authority. Months of delay and
violence have clearly swelled the ranks of
skeptics on both sides. Yet if violence and
delay have become the main threats to peace,
the security measures and accelerated tuneta-
fale worked outin Cairo are the right response.

Most of the substantive concessions were
made by IsraeL For the first rime ever, Israel
will accept an armed international presence in
the occupied territories — a uniformed force
of 160 Norwegians, Danes and Italians whose
mission is to provide a feeling of security to
Pales tinian residents of Hebron and monitor
events there. These observers, who will have
no military or police powers, will report to a
joint Israeti-Palestinian committee. Their ini-
tial mandate is for three months but can be
extended with the agreement of both sides.

Israel has also agreed to permit the deploy-
ment of a Palestinian police force in Gaza and

Jericho, even before formal agreement is
reached on the details of autonomy. Thai isan
effective way to increase Palestinian civilian
security, discourage further settler violence
anri avoid mistaken- identity killings by Israeli
soldiers, as occurred Monday in Gaza.

In addition, in a gesture of immense psy-
chological importance, Israel will speed up its
troop withdrawals in an effort to complete
♦him by the original target date of April 13.

In return for these concessions, the FLO

has now returned to the autonomy talks that it

broke off after the Hebron mosque massacre
in February. It has dropped demands, like its
falls for removing or disarming Jewish set-
tlers, that threatened to unravel the Septem-
ber peace formula. The essence of that formu-
la, is to give Palestinians authority over their
own lives now, and leave issues like territory
and settlers for later.

From the day Prime Minister Yitzhak Ra-
bin and the PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat,
initialed the framework peace agreement on
the White House lawn, both understood that
their resolve would be tested again and again
by violent enemies of peace on both sides.
Their fears have been amply fulfilled, not
just by Baruch Goldstein but by Palestinian
terrorists who see Mr. Arafat as a traitor.
The encouraging news is that Israeli and
Palestinian leaders have now made dear
their determination not to be deflected from
the path of peace.

— THE NEW YORK TIMES.

Move Gingerly on Trade

Angry sparring over trade between Japan
and the United States is inevitable. Japan is
r unning a huge trade surplus, the United
States is running a huge trade deficit, and the
products of both countries comp ete fiercely
in each other’s markets. But to say that
trouble is inevitable is not to suggest that it is
harmless. It needs to be handled carefully —
more carefully than either government is
currently handling it.

In the last installment in this continuing
d rama. Prime Minis ter Morihiro Hosokawa
of Japan came to Washington in February for
talks with President B01 Canton. The visit was
notable chiefly for tire collapse of the trade
talks then under way. Now the Japanese have
made another offer, but it is a halfhearted
proposition, and the Clinton administration
has briskly rejected it The United States
wants more American products sold in Japan
and a smaller trade deficit, in the background
the threat of sanctions is visible

But neither the American trade deficit nor
the Japanese surplus is much affected by trade
rules or the practices that the negotiators are
quarreling about When a country like Japan
exports capital and invests it abroad, it win
automatically have a trade surplus that bal-
ances the outflow of money. Similarly, the
United States has been importing capital in a
big way ever since the policy mistakes of the

early Reagan years, and its trade deficit is the
result These big surpluses and deficits in-
flame the trade relationship and make it hard-
er to deal with the agenda of specific indus-
tries' complaints and grievances, which are
often substantial and require attention.

The prospect for any real improvement in
trade relations between the two countries is
smaller now than it seemed last s ummer . The
American trade deficit wiD increase sharply
over the coming year, largely because the UJS.
economy is growing faster than is Japan's or
Europe’s. In Japan, the election of Mr. Ho-
sokawa, c ommit ted to political reform, of-
fered at least the possibility that the old alli-
ances between politicians and commercial
interests might be weakened and produce
more open markets. But Mr. Hosokawa, dis-
tracted by the struggles over reform legisla-
tion and hampered by a recession, appears to
have no more interest than Ins predecessors
did in a major effort to change Japanese
attitudes toward imports.

The Hosokawa government now has to ask
itself bow long an economy as big as Japan's
can prosper by running up vast, unstable
surpluses. And the Clinton administration
needs to consider how to prevent a swelling
trade deficit next year from setting off a flood
of protectionist legislation in Congress.

— THE WASHINGTON POST.

Standing Up to a Future of Nuclear Showdowns

W ASHINGTON — The United States went
to war with Iraq in part because, once in
control of the Gulf and its oil, Iraq would soon
become a nuclear power. The United States may
yet have go to wax, if that is what Kim H Sung
decides, to prevent North Korea from becoming
a midear power. And there win be future nudear
showdowns. We may be entering the era of wars
of nonproliferation.

If this is our fate, it is worth asking why. Why
fight nudear proliferation? Is it not inevitable?
One day everyone win have the bomb. Don’t India
and Israel and Pakistan already have it?

To winch the answer is: They do, and it does not
matter to America greatly that they da Israel and
Iiriia and Pakistan are not outlaw states ideologi-
cally committed to overthrow the world order by
whatever means they can get their hands on.

The key confusion about nonproliferation is the
un dcratandabte but migaken hdirf that it must he
'universal to make sense. Nonproliferation has
never been a universal goaL The five great powers
have long had the bomb but recognized that the
world would be infinitely more dangerous if every-
body else had h, too. They are not about to give up
theirs. That is the first breach of universality.

A second equally important breach distin-

By Charles Kr«TT T>igmTn <>r

fatter are not difficult to define. For conve-
nience, use the State Department's list of terror-
ist states that includes North Korea, Iran, Iraq
and Libya . ) To be sure, it is not a good thing for
many normal states to get the bomb. Prolifera-
tion has its own logic and can get out of control
Yet, while it is a cause of some worry that the
Indias of the world have the bomb, they are not

a mortal threat to the world community.

Consider an American domestic analogy. It is
not good for too many ordinary people to have
gram. They might — they do — end up uang
them in domestic disputes. But it is catastrophic
for society when the criminal classes are heavily
armed. For them, a gun is not a sometimes thing
that goes off in a moment of pasaan or by
accident, but a yieans of doing business.

It is armed criminals who mm dries into free-
fire zones. Ima gin e what the world wiD look like
when outlaw states get their hands on nudear-
tipped missiles. Which is why they most not be
allowed to. But is this not a hopdess task? Is It
not inevitable that they w23 get the bomb in the
long run? To which there are three answers:

1. Life happens in the short nm. One does not
even get to the long nm if one has not survived
the short. Perhaps our grandchildren will have to
deal with a world in w&ch every crazy slate has
gone nuclear. But they will not even be around to
deal with the problem if we have not shown
ourselves capable of dealing with the early stages
of the promem today.

2. Nudear proliferation might be inevitable,
but perhaps outlaw states are not With the
passage of time, it ispossible that the community
of outlaw slates win dwindle, perhaps even dis-
appear. By analogy, we have not strived the
problem of terrorism, but there has been a steep
decline worldwide in terrorist attacks ever since
the stales of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Noe
that aided and abetted terrorists changed regimes

or, as in the case of East Gennany,

It is quite possible that if potential nudear
outlaws can be hdd at bay for long enough, their
regimes will change. In the long run. North
Korea win surely disappear. Saddam Hussein
wfll one day die. The Islamic extremism that

fads other outlaw states might bum itself out,

the72n

> in less time than the75 years it took the
; wtfhnaasm to burn Out.

3. Even if nudear proliferation is inevitable,
present vulnerability to nuclear attack is noL
This is the most important reason to buy time.
Today the United Sates is entirely defenseless.
With painful slowness and over the objection of
cmite irrational opposition, it is just beginning to
develop defenses against misale attack.

The Korean crisis presents President Bill Clin-
ton with the opportunity to offer a virion of the
world and a program of national security as
coherent and compelling as that offered by Resi-
dent Harry Truman in 1947. like Truman, he
should speak plainly. Explain that the Korean
crisis is only the first of many. That we are
entering an age of proliferation. That Americans
must begin a serious, accelerated effort to protect
future generations with missil e defenses.

We are not talking about “star wars." This is
not some impossible scheme to shoot down
10,000 weapons raining down from the Soviet
Union. We are talking about defense against the
small arsenal of an outlaw state that could one
day hold hostage San Francisco or New York
A Democrat saying that? Why not? Harry
Tr uman invented containment. Richard Nixon
went to China Vision does not follow a script
Washington Post Writers Group.

Playing It Much Too Safe In a Society Adrift, Room for Extremists to flourish

Why wait to send peacekeepers to Bosnia
until — this is American policy — a compre-
hensive peace agreement is signed? So asks
Yasushi Akashl the United Nations' man in
the former Yugoslavia. “Agreements are be-
ing reached toward that peace cow, and now
is the time we need troops."

He's got a point Hie no-troops- tiC-it’s-
finished-and-safe policy was formed in the
aftershock of American peacekeeping losses
in Somalia and at a moment when the Ameri-
can government was in a deliberately low
profile in Bosnia. But the memory of Somalia
is cot and should not be controlling in all
circumstances. Anyway, President Bffl Clin-
ton has been having some success in the old
Yugoslavia with a surge of American initia-
tive. It is time to rethink peacekeeping and see
whether and how Washington could make an
appropriate contribution.

What Mr. Akashi calls a “piecemeal peace"
is emerging. Sarajevo and other besieged cities
are openin g: It takes more peacekeepers.
Washington and Moscow delivered Bosnia’s
Muslims and Croats to a cease-fire and a feder-
al constitution: a big new piece of peace to
police. Now the two great powers have drawn

Croatia and the breakaway Serbian region of
Rrajina into a cease-fire: an additional 1,600
kilometer { 1 ,000-nrik) confrontation line topa-
troL These increments overwhelm resources
already in place. The idea that the new gains
might be lost for want of adequate peacekeep-
ing should be regarded as criminal.

Flay band to get, demurs the Pentagon:
Sticking to the old U.S. terms on peacekeeping
applies powerful leverage on others to fill the
gap. Here is a case erf success gone unrecog-
nized Other countries in Europe and elsewhere
have filled the gap — the old gap. Now, with
the new requirements, there is an expanding
newgap. Already the United States has seen fit
to send 350 troops to monitor events in Mac-
edonia. In that instance it didn’t amply do
nothing and call it leverage:

Is it risky? It is risky. The French, who have
led the way, the British and others represented
on the ground have taken casualties — and
stayed on the mission. It is bizarre that the
United States, which keeps insisting that it
^eventually dispatch peacekeepers only^f

its NATO comrades awisits on the'Jddines.

— THE WASHINGTON POST.

Other Comment

So Much Meal for the Rears

If there is one thing Wall Street can't stand
it is good news. Conference Board reports that
consumer confidence has surged to a four-
year high helped send stock and braid prices
tumbling this week to lows 8 percent under
their Jan. 31 peak. The reason; Fears of infia-’
tion and a consensus that the Federal Reserve
Board will keep increasing short-term interest
rates to stop it at the pass.

That, at least, is one explanation for the
market's jit toy performance. It makes more
sense to us than the more common assertion
that the Fed's quarter-point boosts in short-
term rates in February and March, with
promise of more to come, set off the tailspin.

Consider all the red meat on which Wall

Street bears can chew: Japan and the United
States at loggerheads on trade: a deadline
approaching for the imposition of Hi-con-
ceived trade sanctions on China; North Korea
rattling its inripient nuclear arsenal; Russia’s
economy in a swamp and Ukraine even
worse; Mexico in turmoil; Whitewater cor-
roding the White House; shrinking defense
budgets imploding the weapons industry.

This would be a witch's brew for any gam-
ble on the future, which is what financial
markets are all about.

Meanwhile, the Fed chairman, Alan Green-
span, figures it is Ms responsibility to stifle
inflati on before it happens and thus give the
economy a firm imderpinnmg for long-term
steady growth. We agree

— The Bokmore Sun.

P ARIS— During the days leading
up to this Easter weekend — rdi-
gkws season for a society that largely
has lost its religious convictions, even
if new forms of religious sentiment
abound — the Islamic world has pro-
vided a demonstration of just bow
serious reh^on can be.

Algeria is on the brink of some-
thing dose to civil war. Islamic fun-
damentalists and terrorists have risen
up against the repressive nrihtaiy
government, which is the legatee of
the freedom movement of the 1950s.
the FLN, or National Liberation
Front Afghanistan continues to be
ravaged by civil war between rdi-
gjoos factions and secular forces.

Local elections in Turkey have giv-
en unexpected success to an Islamic
fundamentalist party there, which
last Sunday gained the most impor-
tant office up for election, that of lord
mayor of Istanbul with 25 percent of
the vote. Although the national aver-
age of electoral support for the Islam-
ic f undamentalist s remains below 20
percent, this result was significant.

Turkey, after Wodd War l was the
initial Islamic conchy to break away
from the theocratic political tradition
that in the past deprived Islamic gov-
ernments (/secular political legitimacy.

By William Pfaff

In Christian Europe, the Christian em-
peror had a divine right to “the things
that are Caesar’s,” sanctioned by
Christ’s words in the New Testament.
Religion functioned in its own sphere.

In Islam, as the eminent American
scholar Bernard Lewis has said, “The
principal function of government is to
gnabl e the individual Muslim to live a
good Muslim life. This is, in the last
analysis, the purpose of the stale.”
This is the regime the Islamic funda-
mentalists want to reestablish.

The Turkish military revolutionary
Kexnal Alatuxk was from the start an
aggressive seculizer, banning polyga-
my, emancipating women arid rocking
dial marnagc. the Western alphabet
and Western-style education compul-
sory. To the extent that last week’s
vote represents a repudiation of Ata-
turk’s reforms, it was a challenge of
great moment to modem Turkey's
leaders and to its ^cwernmeni, under a
female prime minister, Tansu GDer.

People in the Islamic world are
turning to the fundamentalists be-
cause of the faDures of the secular
model of modernization. There is a
serious loss of morale among the
modernizers themselves. In part this

failure is economic, generating un-
balanced growth and the breakdown
of traditional institutions, but at a
deeper level it is moraL The modem
wond — the Western world, as it is
presented to the Islamic peoples —
seems morally anarchical or actively
immo ral. The Islamic fundamental-
ists promise to re-establish the values
of Islam’s own past.

They are most unlikely to be able
to do that. The forces of seculariza-
tion and internationalization are in

the long term fikdy to prevail

" But the form

over

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society win assnme in many non-
Westem countries may prove to be
very distant from the liberal West
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seedy and scientific society — is not

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fully apparent, to Americans most of
aQ. A part of the American intellectual
class is even searching for a new na-
tional political-moral orientation in
some kind of amalgam of cultural in-
fluences, to substitute for those of the
American and Western past, naively

Veiled and Fearful in Besieged Algeria

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than to share it i with others, ft was written before Wednesday’s murder in Algiers
of two unveiled schoolgirls. The writer’s name is withheld at her friends' request.

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My Dear Friends:

On March 10, the most radical fac-
tion of the Islamic fundamentalist
movement, which has been
war against the Algerian state'
people since January 1992, an-
nounced that any woman seen in
public after March 17 without the
nijab (veil) prescribed by Muslim or-
thodoxy would be a legitimate target
With blades or bullets, she could and
should be killed.

This was no empty threat It was
carried out on March 18 when a 16-
year-old high school girl was mur-
dered on her way to class.

Since then, all the young women in
the factory where I work as a junior
manager are wearing the veil. I doubt
that even three of them have the re-
motest interest in following the pre-
ray is of Islam in a strict sense, u at
alL We respect the religion of our
parents. But we were taught that reli-
gion is a private matter that cannot
be imposed by decree.

Now, practicing what we were
taught, what we grew up with, what

we believe, can get us killed. None of
us wants to wear the veil. Fear, I
admit, is stronger than oar convic-
tions, OT our will to be free. Fear is all
around us. Our parents, our brothers,
are unanimous: Wear die veil and
alive. This will pass,
am no intellectual but I believe
that other $iis and boys, other people,
elsewhere in other times, were told
that the evil and the fear around them

uni

would pass. As far as I know, it did
not. It got worse. I believe it wflj get
worse here, unless someone bears us.

Today the Islamists, as the Islamic
fun dam entalists are called, want to
the veil on us. Tomorrow they
keep us from working, or even
to school They say that we
should not vote or take part in public
affairs. The veil is to be total. And we
all can guess that the slightest visit
with a boyfriend can get us killed

I understand that women in Amer-
ica and France have problems that
are real and serious. But 1 ask them to
compare their problems to those of
the women in my country, who are
being asked to choose between our
individuality and death.

The best of Islam is founded in
h uman dignity and tolerance and re-
spect for others, both men and wom-
en. But it is not the best of Islam .that is
co ming to the fore now in Algeria. The
war against women taking place now
in Algeria is not founded in Islamic
precepts, but in the terrorist mentality
that took over Iran years ago.

On March 8, International wom-
en’s Day, thousan ds of women an-
swered the call of the Association of
Algerian Women and marched in the
streets of Algiers and otter cities
to make known their Opposition to
the program of the fanatics. They
caiiivt jfff an end to the violence that
the Islamist terrorists are waging
against our people.

Scarcely a day goes by when a

leacher, a journalist, a labor leader,
a lawyer is not murdered, not to
mention ordinary working people
who show signs of free thinking.
They are considered Westernized,
corrupt beyond salvation, good only
for extermination.

Yet, when the women marched, the
secular democratic parties did not
come oul The women marched alone.
And it looks like we wflj stay alone:

The government of France — the
country most closely involved in our
country’s destiny — has waited ner-
vously, hesitating between a serious
policy of helping the Algerian state
repress the terrorists and one of seek-
ing a deal with the eventual winner in
what will soon be a full-scale Leba-
nese- style civil war.

Our neighbors, Morocco and Tuni-
sia, have done nothing, terrified by
the prospect of the most powerful
country in the region turning into
another Iran and exporting its terror-
ist Jihad — and millions of refugees.

And the United States has done
nothing. I have to believe Americans
do not understand us, or the full
importance of our problem. We want
to live in a country where we can be
like Americans if that is what we
please, or be ourselves, or even wear a
veil if we really want to wear a veil
But the I slamis t terrorists, after they
have turned Algeria into another
Iran, will not give us any choices.

Probably 1 have made many mis-
takes in this letter. But I know about
the Islamic terrorists and I know
what they want to da I hope you will
hear my voice and raise yours for us.

International Herald Tribune.

nearly always
some kind of collective enterprise
with a moral quality: to make a better
life for one’s children, if only that
The Islamic fundamentalists say
they off a* a society of moral integrity
and purpose. Western demagogues
offer that, and jobs as wdL All re-
spond to a popular sense that the
moral gravity of society has been
lost; and that is an ethical issue.

International Herald Tribune.

© Los Angeles Times Syndicate.

He Builds
An Edifice
Against Hate

By A. M. Rosenthal

N EW YORK — The American

entrepreneur, bora in Hungary,
bad just returned from one of hts
many visits to Budapest He spoke
with rnignkh of the upsurge of anti-
Semitism he found there. “Wdl any-
way," he said, “at least it is not as bad
as m Romania and Poland."

I thought of the story in the paper
that mor n in g — fascists gain impor-
tant political strength in Italy. The
papers call item “sea” Bui about
fascists and Nazis I make no such
distinctions, know no neos.

And then I did have one happy

JbS 8 feul'n would read fromhis
balcony on Easter Sunday and other
Sundays what he had mid to Tad
Synle, the American author and jour-
nalist, about Jews and Christians.

“The attitude of the Chtuch toward
the people of God's Old Testament —
the Jews — can only be that they are
our elder brothers m the faith," the
pope said. “I have been convinced of
that from my youngest years in my
native town of Wadowice."

The pope's comments became
more intimate and personal — how
he had seen Jews rounded up by the
Nazis in Poland when he was in his
fata teens, how he always regretted he
could do nothing, but at least could
keep talking of what he had seen, and
how be had forever remembered (he
words of the 1 47 th Psahn he had
heard as a child:

“O Jerusalem, glorify the Lord;
Praise thy God, O Zion."

The pope spoke too of the “right"
of the Jews to return to Israel, *the
land of their ancestors,"

The comments to Mr. Szulc were
made drning an interview in the pa-
pal quarters. Mr. Szulc, Polish-bom,
is writing the pope's biography. But
he is a great scoop artist —a former.
New York Times reporter who broke
the stray about the pending Bay of

Pigs invasion of Cuba.
He is

considered discredited by the evds
with which they have been associated.

Societies dominated until World
War I by an official Christianity, and
divided in their xrdd-20th century alle-
giances by the rivalry between En-
lightenment liberalism and apocalyp-
tic communism, nowiadc a nurfrffiznig
vision of the future. The recent Italian
pariiamentaiy election resuh, in which
the Ross Perut-lib: television magnate
SBvio Berlusconi enwged as die coun-
try's principal political figure, with a
program of demagogic promises, was
produced by decades of eruption in
both Christian Democratic and So-
cialist parties, and by the loss of the
Communists’ vision of a supposedly
progressive alternative.

France has just endured nearly two
weeks of often violent protest against
government measures intended to pro-
mote youth employment. The emo-
tional reality of the protests was de-
nunciation of a future in winch it
seems that vast numbcre may be de-
prived of meaningful wade by capital-
iso's implacable redistribution of the
economic cards in favor of devek^ang
countries with low- wage, low-benefit,
low-protection labor forces.

without work, people are literally
demoralized, but so are entire societ-
ies. Freud once remarked that work is

not the man to let a papal
exclusive tie around until it appears
in hard covers. The interview will be
printed Sunday in Parade magazine.

His name, incidentally, is pro-
nounced Shulls. Shults, not Slut or
Ttilk or Skullr, as various nincom-
poop Tunes editors used to call trim.

When I first read the interview, 1
thought — nice, but no lag deal; small
maaes. I remembered the day in 1987
when the Pope shocked Jews by re-
ceiving Kurt Waldheim, then presi-
ded of Austria, after it became known
that he had beta on a “wanted" list of
Nazi war criminals.

I talked with specialists in par
parsing, inducting Rabbi A.
Fames Rndin, director of interreti-
Kjous affairs for the American Jewish
Committee. He thinks the interview
broke important ground.

The Pope, he says, is dome his part
to build up bride by bride a new
theological Caihotio-Jewish “edifice"
that will replace the old structure,
erected by centuries of rdigion-
spawned hatred toward Jews.

Constantly over the centuries,
Christian thedogvhas been a weap-
on against Jews. Tbdr continued ex-
istence was seen as an assault against
Christianity, which had its roots in
Judaism but was supposed to have
replaced it

The Second Vatican Council of
1962 and 1965 ruled out the continu-
ous theological teaching of Jews as
Christ-Jrillers — so far the most im-
portant brick. If the Pope-watchers
are right and Pope John Paul D
meant the interview to be another
brick, that is important good newi
In all the wood, no stronger influ-
ence for good ot evil exists than theol-
ogy. What theologians think » what
«m i n n r i an s are taught, j»nd what they
then pass on to thdr congregations. As
an editor I thought theology rate of the
most important and least covered of
subjects, and still da
If the Pope and aD his
the struggle against anti-
not an occasional thing but a
their priestly mission, would that end
Europe’s anti-Semitism? No: Anti-
Semitism is far too valuable a tod for
fascist-minded politicians and their
thugs to surrender, Pope or not.

But to any Catholic who did be-
lieve in following the t«n-hing s of the
papacy yet might be leaning toward
anti-Semitism. John Paul II would be
crying halt: Anti-Semitism is a tin
a gain st your own religion, its origins

and wiaanmp

Would that diminish anti-Semi-
tism amonjr Catholics and non-Gath-
oik Chris tians who do care about
religion? 1 think it certainly would,
not completely but to some impor-
tant measure, yes. And that itself
would be a great achievement for any
one person, in one lifetime.

The New York Times.

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[March 30], as cveryaiKis desirous erf

enjoying a day of rest The visit of the
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mense social effect” of the proposed
crusade against disease. The co-ordi-
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Red Cross organizations would, he
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American Red Cross. Mr. Davison,
in his opening address, explained the

purpose of the congress and the im-

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Tracking a Treasure
Back Home: Cambodia

Iniemanonal Herald Tribune

P ARIS — Statues mutilat-
m or smashed to remove
toe head, shrines blown

M . “ P ^“ USCUXD collections

plundered. This is the broad pic-
Ganbodia, Tibet, BoStia
and otiier places. Who cares any-
way? Fewer people than you might
in the so-called art world.
Ana those who do have a hard
time.

The story of the headless statue
shwn here begins in December
1980. That month Jean-Michel
**raeley, a Paris dealer in Far
Eastern art whose wife is Thai, was
m Bangkok, a city he knows well,
doing the rounds of the galleries
selling early sculpture and pottery.
The gray sandstone figure of a wom-
an admirably proportioned despite
the loss of the bead, arms and feet
caught his eye. Smallish — 52 centi-
meters (203 indies) — it had the
monumental dignity tempered by a
rare feel for the human body of
Khmer art at the height of its classi-
cal period, around A.D. 1200. It
could have come from a great many
sites in Cambodia proper or in the
Cambodian areas seized by Thai-
land in the last two centuries.

A deal was concluded. The head-
less statue was shipped off to
France and eventually included in
a selling show m the Beurdeley gal-
lery late in 1981. A German collec-
tor whom Beurdeley had never seen
before walked in, liked it very much
as the dealer Had done, and said he
wanted it The price was 100,000
francs. Beurdeley then applied for
an export license.

As French procedure requires,
the statue was submitted for cus-
toms clearance to a museum cura-
tor whose task was to determine
whether the work of art could be
allowed out of France without the
French heritage incurring a loss.
The specialist called in on this oc-
casion was Albert Le Bonheur, a
renowned scholar in Southeast
Asian art then in charge of toe
Music Guimet pending the ap-
pointment of a new director. At
that time, Le Bonheur, concerned
by the bail of devastation and
plunder in Cambodia, routinely
checked out any material coming
out of the country that came to his
attention. Bade in his office, he
started driving into the photo-
graphic archive built up over de-
cades by the Ecole Fran^aise <TEx-
tr&me-Orient, which had been in
charge of the Angkor temples.'

Within a week* Le Bonheur and-,
rwotrf ihis coBeagpesrfounda black-
and-white print that matched .the
statue in the customs warehouse. It
indicated that the statue had been

kept in storage at toe Depot de la
Conservation <f Angkor until toe
French left in 1972. It came from the
Ta Pronto temple at Angkor. In
short, it had been stolen at some
point. Le Bonheur rang Beuiddey to
mform him of the problem. The

dealer said be would see to it that the
sculpture went back to Cambodia.

That was more easily said than
done. The country, which had first

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undergone the genoddal tyranny
of toe Khmer Rouge, was now run
by the Vietnamese mOitaiy. .Re-
turning toe statue to Cambodik un-
der the circumstances was point-
less.

Beurdeley and Le Bonheur
agreed to let the matter rest until
new conditions prevailed m Cam-
bodia. Le Bonheur, who had marfe
a full report to Hubert Landais,
director of French museums, bad
received his blessing. Beurdeley did
not move to get his statue bade as
he was entitled to in law, since no
authority had ever laid claims to its
ownership. It remained at toe Gui-
met, gathering dust. Beordriey, on
toe other hand, had to notify the
German collector. The collector
agreed to accept a refund, but,
Beurdeley says with a rueful laugh,
“I never saw him again.* 4

Years went by. At last, the Cam-
bodian stale was bran again. In
August 1993, Beurdeley met toe
French ambassador to Phnom
Penh, Philippe Coste, told him
about his desire to send bade the
statue, and through the ambassa-
dor's good offices, was received by
the Cambodian minister of culture,
Nouto Narang. He repeated bis
story and explained that he was
eager to see the statue back where it
belonged The minister expressed
dehghL But, Beurdeley says, when
be rang toe new director of French
museums in September and wrote
formally to apply for an exit per-
mit no answer came forth. He rang
again to hear from a civil servant
that the problem was delicate, no
permit could be issued concerning
a piece that had been stolen. He
should tryto see whether toe em-
bassy could help with transporting
the item.

Beurdeley, without modi
put the problem to the ami
who explained that the diplomatic
bag could not be used for carrying
private property — technically,
Beurdeley remained the owner of
the statue until be returned it phys-
ically. By then, the situation bad a
distinctly -Kafkaesqne touch. The
ambassador had an inspiration. He
alerted Prince Norodom Ranar-

iddh, first president of toe Royal
Government of Cambodia and
new the prime minister. The first
president had .a suggestion for
Beurdeley: He was to contact
Prince Norodom Sihamoni, toe son
of King Norodom Sihanouk and
head of the Cambodian delegation
to Uncsco.

Beurdeley wrote a letter on Nov.
S and suddenly things were speed-
ed up. By Nov. 22, he received
word from the head of the delega-
tion that the cumbersome piece
could be delivered to the Cambodi-
an delegation. A ceremony would
be organized on Dec. 4. Beurdeley
arrived at the appointed time, car-
rying, he says, toe headless lady
wrapped in a pared.

By all amnnnte, the Cam b odians
were truly surprised. There appears
to have been no precedent to such a
happy ending nor is it likely to be
followed soon by many more.

Jd 1993, Uncsco published via its
International Council of Museums
a bilingual booklet entitled “Cent
Objets Disparus/One Hundred
Missing Objects” in cooperation
with the Ecole Fran^aise d’Ex-
ir dm e-Orient, whose documents
were used. Why on earth this did
not come out earlier — most of toe
objects vanished in the 1970s or the
early 1980s — has yel to be ex-
plained. Ironically, the only sculp-
ture known to have been relumed
is the Beurdeley statue.

H AD it been published,
say. two years earlier,
all east two more pieces
might be on their way
back. On June 2, 1992, a “Khmer
Gray Torso of a goddess, Baphuon
style; 1 1 to century” was included in
a sale at Sotheby's, New York. It
looks exactly the same as the item
numbered DCA 7081 in toe Unes-
co publication, which dates it to toe
late 10th century, gives Prasal Tra-
peang Khna in toe Angkor area as
its provenance and states the height
to be 56 centimeters. Hie differ-
ence in size given in Sotheby’s cata-
logue — 22* inches (57.8 centime-
ters) — means nothing. The
apparent identify would sorely
warrant an investigation.

So would toe stunning similarity
between a four-faced sandstone
head reproduced as DCA 3489 in
the Unesco publication and lot 555
in Sotheby’s catalogue of Himala-
yan, Indian and Southeast Asian
works of ait sold in London on Oct.
2f, 1993. The similarity extends to
toe merest detail of iconography as
well as to some of toe more unusual
dents such as a deep gash in the
headdress on one of the faces. The
head illustrated by Unesco belongs

Sculpture of female deity , c. 1200 1 returned to Cambodia.

to a statue of Brahma from Tra-
peang Phong and dates from the
1 1th century. It was ripped off the
body, to which it had been previ-
ously reattached. In the process,
the body was broken into bits. This
might explain why the fourth face
is **now missing,” as stated by
Sotheby’s.

Asked whether the auction bouse
has a policy of systematic investiga-
tion of mon umen tal sculpture and
archaeological objects submitted for
consignment, Marjorie Stone, gener-
al counsel of Sotheby’s, said, “We
try to get pieces before they get
included in the catalogue. We look
up whatever publications are avail-
able.”

Publishing is toe first protective
step. It is enough to deter auction
booses and toe more scrupulous
dealers, if not hosts of other buyers

who do not have such a highly
visible profile.

Regarding these, the most urgent
step would be an international ban
on museum acquisition, whether bv
purchase or by donation, of all cul-
tural material from areas under de
facto foreign occupation or in war
zones. It would deal a heavy blow
to speculation. But it simply won’t
happen. Rich institutions are busy
building up their important collec-
tions. Who wants to hear that Ti-
betan temples have been plundered
before these lovely textiles were al-
lowed to wander away?

The North Star

And French Sun

By Michael Gibson

huenumonal Herald Tnbme

P ARIS — if Lotus XIV was the Sun King,
toe king of Sweden conceived of himself as
toe North Star — the “star that never sets.”
The choice of symbol is significant. The
kings of Sweden, in their large and underpopulated
country, were determined to emulate the briBiam
monarchy to the south and the two states main-
tained dose political, scientific and cultural ties
throughout toe 18 th century. Hus much is abun-
dantly demonstrated by “Le Soldi a l*Eto0e du
Nani” the big exhibition at the Grand Palais
through June 13.

Although the show is largely composed of works
of art, fine pieces of furniture and tableware, it is a
good idea to approach it as a historical rather than
an artistic exhibition. There are two good reasons
for this. The first is that most of the objects assem-
bled are of historical significance. Tne second is
somewhat subtler and is only apparent when one
readies the slide show an the'end of the exhibition.

The viator walking in from toe street cannot
hrip being struck by the heavy luxury of many of
toe items (toe big, ugly silver baptismal font by
Jean-Fran^ois Cousin et, the bloated gilt throne
built for Adolf Frederick and Louise Ulrike in
1751), or by toe super-abundant French-inspired
ornateness that characterizes much of toe interior
decoration of toe period, because the stuff was
either made in France or copied from French
models by Swedish craftsmen.

This impression is only corrected at toe end and
toe slide show makes it quite dear that the rich
taste of the French court was tempered in Sweden,
not only by an ingrained Lutheran reserve, but
even more so by a native aesthetic of elegant
simplicity that is apparent in toe architecture, the
landscaping, and in the way the French material
was mixed with plainer and more rustic dements,
heightening the charm of both.

S WEDEN made a spectacular entry into
the 18th century with toe extraordinary
career of Charles XII, who. in 1700 when
he was only 18, inarched out of his country
at the head of a tiny army to defeat a Russian force
10 limes as numerous commanded by Peter the
Great. Charles rearranged the map of Europe for a
while but was badly beaten by Peter a few years
later and died in battle at toe age of 36, leaving a
weakened and impoverished nation behind him.

The exhibition also evokes the major aspects of
toe Swedish economy during toe 1 8th century
(shipbuilding, minin g and metallurgy) and traces
the influence of Swedish scientific research. Hie
do minan t scientific figure was the naturalist Caro-
lus Linnae us whose classification of living species
is still in use (be gave us Homo sapiens) and whose
witty, avuncular features fairly glow at one out of
yet another portrait by Roslin (who painted it free
of charge).

Other important figures include Anders Celsius

Prince Gustav (1 753) by Bouchardon.

who, together with Piene-Louis Moreau de Mau-
pertuis, rode narrow and uncomfortable, one-man
sleds drawn by reindeer into the Polar Circle in
1736 and established that the globe was slightly
flattened at the pole. The cold was so intense their
brandy froze but they brought experimental con-
firmation to Newron's theoretical assertion,
against Descartes who had held that the Earth was
flattened, not at the pole but at toe equator.

The exhibition opens with the completion in the
French style of toe new royal castle in Stockholm.
The old one had burned down in 1697 while
Charles XI was lying in state. It presents toe reg&lia
of the coronation of Adolf Frederick ana his
queen, evokes Louise Ulrike’s castle at Drott-
ningholm and aspects of daily life in Swedish
manors, provides an overview of toe reign of Gus-
tav m, and assembles a twofold collection of
Swedish artists residing in France, and French
works in Swedish collections. The latter includes
some noteworthy paintings, including a delicious,
muted Chardin of a nurse adjusting a little girl’s
bonnet before they go out

The extraordinary prestige that France enjoyed
throughout Europe in the 18th century is also
apparent in hs relations with the kings of Sweden,
but Sweden’s dose ties with toe French court were
also dictated by a need to strike a balance with
threatening neighbors.

It was paradoxically a Frenchman. Napoleon’s
former marahal Jean Baptiste Jules Bemadotte
(founder of the current dynasty), who. upon becom-
ing king of Sweden, broke the old alliance with
France, sided with Russia against the French emper-
or and established toe basis of a neutrality that has
since proven so profitable to his adopted country.

Strong Demand at Singapore Auction

By Michael Richardson

International Herald Tribtme

s

INGAPORE— Strong demand and high prices at a recent sale in
Singapore by Christie's has confirmed the potential of the bur-
geoning art market in the region. At the auction, held March 26
and 27, 75 percent of toe 92 Southeast Asian paintings, 94
percent of the 64 lots of Straits Chinese gold and silver jewelry, and all 91
sets of Nonya ceramics were sold.

Together with an associated auction of stamps and covers of toe Straits
Settlements and Southeast Asia, Christie’s Spring Auction m Singapore
achieved sales of 5.7 million Singapore dollars ($3.6 mfllion).

As a result, Christie’s, which has just established its Asia headquarters
in Singapore, hopes to hold a series of auctions in the idand-statft
Executives of toe company said that the next is likely to be in March 1995
and will include an expanded offering of Southeast Asian paintings.

Future sales will be affected by a 3 percent tax on goods and services
levied by the Singapore government from ApnJ I. But Chnsues appears
confident that the new tax will not significantly dampen demand lor
Kmal .works of art

pore to the sale in Hong Kong. Bidders in Singapore can see color slide
projections of them and bid

Sotheby’s will introduce s
for its next Hong Kong sale,
presale exhibition in Singapore, April 16 and 17.

Meanwhile, in a move to expand further into the Asian market,
Christie’s International has appointed Philip Ng, a former chairman of
IBM Singapore and general manager of IBM’s regional services in South
and Southeast Asia, as managing director of Chnstie’s Asia.

l De recent saic iquucu ww m uiuv**w-~, - — o-r

sian painters, as wefl as by Dutch, German and other European artists
who spent time in toe region. The next sale is likely to include pamtmgs

^TVxal 5kL KEi^Swiredto 12 million Smgapore dollar, for
stampT almost 2 , S5f dollars, for ceramics 636,000 doflare and for

jewetoy 470,000 dollars. Among mS

SmeaDore dollars. ^Hiding commission, of “The Eruption erf Menpt
i«vn at Nieht.” nain <ff d in 1866 by Raden Saleh- An 1857 letter
& a Jnama bisect sold ta 152J50

Singapore dollars.

C HRISTIE’S first stamp auction in Singapore m May 1993
Souiht in 4 2 million Singapore dollar! and helped convince
UvTcompany dun tbenelS sufficient demand to support

While ChS/to derided that the Eaa Asian «t market is rtrong
wnue umsuea u«. auctions in Singapore as well as Hong Kong,
enough to siqjport regular Hong Kong and perhaps Taiwan.

jadrite jewelry io a ^ m

Sotheby’s As&m feeling is that toe strongest market

m toe near future. , umni in snlit the market

aoroeoy s ah * ■ feeling ^ that toe strongest market

for toe sake J .JKnual Hong Kong sales to

Sotheby's had. “^^ApJ^Mpresale exhibitions in toe island-state.

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1994

Rare old books on medicine,
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Room 4 at 2.15 p.m. - FURNITURE AND OBJETS D'ART.
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AND SCULPTURES: BELLMER, BONNARD, BORES, CAMOIN,
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MAN-RAY, MASCHER1NI, MASSON, MATISSE, MODIGLIANI,
ORLOFF, PICAD1A. RODIN, ROY. ZADKINE. ZORN. On view at
die auctioneer's office: March 29, 30 and 31, 10 a_m.-I p_m_ - 2
p.nL-ti p.m., April 5. 6, 7 and 8, 10 a.m-1 p.m -2 pm-6 p.m,
April 9, 1 1 aJti - ti p.m. On view at die Hotel DmuoL April 12,
11 a.m. - (» p.m., April 13, 11 a.m. - 12 am Catalogue on
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Forthcoming

Auction

CHRISTIE'S

PiMo Picasso ( 1881- 1973), FT ohm, boutedle et ivrre
signed on the reverse Picasso, oil, colltige and charcoal on
canvas, 25!$ x 19 3 -‘4 in. (65 x 50 an.)

Painted in Paris, spring, 1913
Estimate: $4,000, Q00-S6.000JM0
Property from a European Estate

Impressionist and Modem
Paintings and Sculpture (Part I)

Auction: New York, 10 May 1994 at 7.00 pjn.

Viewing: Paris, 6-7 April

New York, 5-10 May

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Marks & Spencer Lets Money Talk

Chairman Tells Critics to Look at Retailer’s Results

By Erik Ipsen

International Herald Tribune

LONDON — Britain’s largest retailer,
Marks & Spencer PLC, looks set to keep its
crown as one of the world's most profitable
store groups. It is expected soon to announce
1993 profit that may be as high as £870
million ($13 billion), compared with £736
million in 1992, which would give it an oper-
ating margin approaching 14 percent.

Curiously, however, those results will
probably go down poorly in the City of Lon-
don financial district, where many analysts
say Marks & Spencer just doesn’t try hard
enough.

“Toe consensus view is that this company
is not exciting enough," said Nicholas Bubo,
an analyst with Morgan Stanley ft Co.

He and others wag accusing fingers at the
company's low financial leverage, meaning

ared with

its low degree of indebtedness compared '
its equity base; its overwhelming reliance on
the slow-growing and overcrowded British
retail market, and its innate conserva tism.
For gpod measure, many also throw in gripes
about its secretive ways and about its deep
pool of managers that some insist are not
nurtured as much as cloned.

As befits a man who insists he has learned
more about management from reading eight
biographies of Harry S. Tr uman than he has
from any management guru, Marks & Spen-
cer’s chairman, Sir Richard Gteenbury, re-
plies by going on the offensive.

“Fran 1983 to now, the earnings per share
of this not very dynamic company have gone

from 43 pence to nearly 20 pence,” he said in
au interview. “I don’t think that is so bad.”

In response to critirism that Marks ft
Spencer has been slow to expand its highly
profitable operations in Continental Europe
— where, nearly two decades after it arrived,
Marks ft Spencer has just 23 stores with
combined revenue that Sir Richard put at “a
few hundred million" pounds — the chair-
man said he had identified 50 European cities

’From 1983 to now, the
earnings per share of this
not very dynamic
company have gone from
4.3 pence to nearly 20
pence. 1 don’t thinlr that is
so bad. 9

Sir Richard Greenbnry

where be would like to plant the M&S flag.

But he said he refused to act hastily and
was bolding out for the right sites at the right
prices.

Maries & Spencer, founded in 189S by
Michael Marks, a Russian Jewish fanigre, has
seldom strayed from its meticulous, detail-
oriented approach. Its stores, ubiquitous in
Britain’s shopping districts, supply a broad

range of clothing and household goods at low
to moderate prices, and the company goes so
far as to enlist its board members in the battle
to keep costs down.

An orange sign by the light switch in the
toilet across from the board room reads:
“Lights Please — Why Don’t You Switch It
Off?"

Marks ft Spencer’s surprise purchase of
America’s prestigious but struggling clothier
Brooks Brothers for £500 million in 1988 was
the exception. Today, Sir Richard admits that
it was bought atthe wrong time for the wrong
price. He also throws in the observation that
trying to grow through acquisitions in retail-
ing "doesn’t work.” Sir Richard became
chairman after Brooks was acquired.

Jeremy Alim- Jones, an analyst for Lehman
Brothers in London, was equally blunL “Ac-
cording to any jury. Brooks Brothers was a
very high-cost bet which they have lost," he
said. Although Brooks is profitable now, Mr.
A1 un-Jones estimates that its returns remain
well below the cost of financing the acquisi-
don.

It is Britain, though, that is both the bane
and boon of Marks & Spencer. To ihe compa-
ny’s critics it is a market with too much
competition and too little growth. To Sir
Richard it remains a honeypot, one where
against all odds Marks ft Spencer has contin-
ued to increase its market share while doing
no harm to its plump profit maigin*.

To some extent the big retailer’s success is

See MARES, Page 11

China’s Growth Slowed in 1st Quarter

O IntemBtJonrt Herald Trfcuno

Bloomberg Business Hews

BEIJING — The growth in Chi-
na’s industrial economy is forecast
to have slowed in the first quarter
of 1994 because of a fall in state
sector output, major newspapers
reported Friday.

A forecast by the State Informa-
tion Center said that industrial out-
put grew 17 percent in the first
quarter erf this year compared with
the Hkeperiod a year ago, accord-
ing to China Securities, an official
newspaper. This is down from a
21.1 percent growth rate in 1993.

The report said that state sector
output inched only 0.4 percent
during the first quarter and actual-
ly feQ by 13 percent in March, the
paper said.

This contrasted starkly with col-

lectively owned companies, which
recorded output growth of 29.6 per-
cent in the first quarter, and private
companies, which posted growth of
70.4 percenL Growth in those two
categories had been fueled by a 24
percent rise in retail sales.

China’s state companies, which
account for just under a half of
industrial output, are always the
first Mt when the government tight-
ens credit to slow the economy.

While the collective and private
sectors fuel their expansion with
profits and loans from unofficial
channels, more than a third of state
enterprises post losses despite be-
ing financed mainly by low-interest
loans from state banks.

A central bank official said
Thursday that credit from state

banks would a g ain be eased slightly
in response to “very loud calls"
from even the healthiest state en-
terprises, the Financial News re-
ported Friday.

“The central bank must support
efficient enterprises with working
capital loans and appropriately in-
crease the scale of loans where they
are suffering fund shortages,
Zhou Zhengqing, deputy governor
of the People's Bank of China, was
quoted as saying.

Weston economists have said that
an injection of credit to ease short-
ages of funds in state companies last
October was parity to Marne for a
resurgence in inflation, Much hit an
animal rate of 20 percent in January
and February this year.

The State Information Center

did not give a forecast for infla tion
in the first quarter. It said if indus-
trial growth stays at about 15 per-
cent, China can meet its target of
bringing inflation down.

■ China Targets Forgers

China’s tax reforms are experi-
encing serious teething problems,
with the authorities forced to
launch a crackdown on people
forging invoices to evade or cheat
on taxes, the China Duly said Fri-
day, according to a dispatch from
Agence France-Presse in Beijing.

Since the launch on Jan. 1 of the
most dramatic tax reforms since
1 949, the practice of forging, selling
and stealing invoices has increased
dramatically, the newspaper
quoted an official as saying.

Dollar Surges
By 2 Pfennig
On Jobs Report

Bloomberg Business News

NEW YORK — The dollar
soared against major currencies
Friday as U.S. interest rates
dim bod after a government report
showed the biggest monthly jobs
gain since 1987.

Traders started buying dollars
after the Labor Department said
the economy added 456,000 jobs in
March, double what some analysts
had predicted. The unemployment
rate remained at 63 percenL

In late trading on Friday, the
U.S. unit had risen to 1.6972 Deut-
sche marks from a dosing on
Thursday ar 1.6740 DM and had
climbed to 103.65 yen from 102.70
yen.

The dollar rose to 5.7940 French
francs, from 5.7200 francs Thurs-
day, and to 1.4267 Swiss francs,
from 1.4137 francs.

The pound was quoted in late
trading at SI. 4735, down from
S1.4835 on Thursday.

“This was an earth-shattering
employment number, "said Alfonso
AJejo, a trader at Sakura Bank Ltd.
“The economy has gathered a lot of
momentum, which could mean a
turning point for the dollar.”

The Commerce Department also
reported that personal income rose
13 percent and spending grew 1
percent in February, tire largest
gains for both figures since last
April

Investors often buy dollars after
reports showing economic
strength, betting that robust
growth will prompt the Federal Re-
serve to raise interest rates to con-
. trol inflation.

The Friday reports sent the U3.
30-year bond yield to 725 percenL
the highest yidd recorded since
January of last year. Theyield rose
16 basis points from Thursday’s
dose, the largest jump since Aug 6,
1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait
Such rate increases make doDar-
deno mina ted deposits in general
more attractive.

The market was both thin and
short, however. Currency trading
finished at midday as most traders
left early for the (Stood Friday holi-
day. London, the world's biggest

foreign-exchange center, wa
dosed for the day.

Before the rally on Friday, tb
dollar had fallen almost 4 percen
against the mark since Jan. 1, htn
by sinking U.S. stock and bom
prices, and by concern about Fresi
dent Bill Clinton's involvement ii
the Whitewater affair. Stubborn!
high German interest rates hav-
also weighed on the U3. currency

“The market will have a differen
view on the dollar on Monday,'
said Steve Flanagan, a trader a
Paine Webber. “IPs much easier t<
make the case for a stronger dofla
now”

The monthly employment rcpor
is considered one erf the broades
assessments of the economy’
strength. With employment on th
rise, the Fed is considered mor
willing to raise U.S. interest rates.

The Fed has raised rates twio
this year, pushing the federal ftmd
rate up to 33 percent from 3 per
cent. The funds rate is the rati
charged by banks to one anothe
for overnight loans.

Interest rates remain higher ii
Germany than in the United States
Germany’s securities repurchin
rate, a key money market rate
stands at 5.76 percenL Traders wQ
be more willing to own dollars a:
the gap between U.S. and Germai
rates narrows.

The dollar rose against the yen ix
Tokyo trading, mamtuna. after the
Rimfc of Japan bought the U.S. cur-
rency, traders stud. The centra
bank bought dollars throoghon
March in an effort to keep the yei
from risin g A strong yen hurts Ja-
pan's manufacturers by matrin^
their products more expensivi
abroad

The dollar has fallen almost f
percent against the yen since U.S.-
Japanese trade talks collapsed or
F 6b. 11. Without progress at tin
bargaining table, the CHntoo ad-
ministration is considered man
likely to call for a strong yen tc
curb Japan’s $60 billion trade sur-
plus with the United States.

Elsewhere the Canadian doDai
tumbled to a seven-year low ol
71.97 U3. cents.

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ECONOMIC SCENE

Zedillo Needs to Learn Fast

By Anthony DePalma

New York Tone s Some

M EXICO CITY — Foreign investors
got what they wanted when a classi-
cally trained economist was selected
to replace the governing party’s slain
presidential candidate in Mexico, but now th ey are
concerned that the candidate’s great strengths in
handling the economy may turn out to be a weak-
ness in handling the country.

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Lc6n has a doctorate
in economics from Yale and such extensive experi-
ence in Mexico’s central bank and its budget
ministry that, if he is elected prescient on Aug. 21,
as expected, he would become one of the most
economically skilled heads of state in the world.

So why should financiers worry? Because Mr.
Zedillo has never before run for office, and be-
cause he has a wooden style of speech and an aloof
manner that will not bdp much in calming a nation
distraught by three months of violence and de-
mands for social justice.

Many investors are now concerned more about
political instability than about inflation.

“What’s not dear is the sort erf pol itical skills he
might bring to the job," said Lawrence D^Krcta,
chief Latin American economist at Lehman Brothers.

“To what extent be might command the support
of the majority of poorandlawjd^MOTMis
another area of concern, Mr. Krohn said. Hes
reputed not to have the common touch, tojtthen
neither did Salinas. Hes young enough, though.
He could learn."

Mr Zedfflo, 42, is widely known asafree-
maAet wnoiisi who cut lus teeth withm tte
polished walls of the Bank of Moocatte
bank. He has been a key memberof wesutot

Carios Salinas de Gortaifs team, serving almost

four years as minister of planning and budget and
two years as education secretary.

He is expected to continue most of Mr. Salinas’s
economic programs, having had a strong hand in
carrying them out, and is known to support the
North American Free Trade Agreement Mexican
business was pleased with his selection.

. Litis Gexmdn Carcoba Garda, president of the
Business Coordinating Council, said the choice of
Mr. Zedillo was a dear signal that current econom-
ic programs would continue.

Mr. Zedillo grew up on the poor streets of the
border city of Mexicali in the Baja peninsula.

He attended Yak University on a scholarship
from the Mexican government A thesis adviser,
Gustav Ranis, remembers Mr. Zedillo as “always a
moderate in his view, not a rabid free- m arketeer
nor an interventionist — a very mature person
even at a young age.”

“He is someone who believes in the irate of gov-
ernment very much,” Mr. Ranis, an inte rn ational
economist said, “but be wants the government to
work with the market not obstruct it”

While at the Bank of Mexico in Ihe years after
the Mexican debt crisis of 1982, Mr. Zolillo over-
saw a mnl rihnKrm-drinar trust set up to bdp pri-
vate businesses that could not pay their interna-
tional debts because the peso had been devalued
and dollars were hard to come by.

The trust made sure that dollars were available,
and also protected the businesses from further
peso fluctuation.

In 1988, Mr. Zedillo joined Mr. Salinas’s cabinet
He took control of the Office of Budget and Plan-
ning ihe office once held by Mr. Salmas and
by the president before him, Miguel de la Madrid.

Mr. Zedillo played a key role in drawing up a
national development plan and the programs that
have helped lowo - Mexico’s inflation rale to tingle
digits.

Market Takes Its Revenge on 3 Hedge Funds

By Saul Hansell

New York Times Service

NEW YORK — Three private
investment funds that had assets of
$2 billion two months ago have
been liquidated in a series of fire
sales on Wall Street, virtually wip-
ing out the holdings of a group of
wealthy individuals and big corpo-
rations.

The funds, managed by Askin
Capital Management used sophisti-
cated strategies to invest in complex
securities based on packa g es of
home mortgages. Like many such
aggressive investment pods, known
as hedge funds, Askm borrowed
$230 for every dollar invested.

While that sort of leverage am-
plifies the potential gains in the
fund, it also magnifies the losses.

Tbuis, as prices on its holdings
declined along with other bonds m
recent months, Askin had to sell
some of its holdings at a loss to
provide the collateral demanded by
the brokerage firms that had lent it
money. Those demands are known
as margin calls.

These sales accelerated the mar-
ket slide in Askin's holdings, gener-
ally thinly traded securities.

Wednesday and Thursday, big
brokerage firms auctioned much or
the remainder of Askin's holdings.

recover the full value of their loans
and may take a loss.

“It’s embarrassing, but I don’t
know where we stand,” he said.
“We’ll be in on Monday to see what
we have. If there is anything left
well rebalance the portfolio and go
on. If there’s nothing left I guess
that’s iL”

On Wednesday, Capital Holding
Corp., an insurance company in
Louisville, Kentucky, that had in-
vested $52 milli on in an Askin fund
known as Granite Farmers, said it
would take a first-quarter charge of
20 cents to 36 cents a share because
of the losses.

In theory, Askin used an invest-
ing approuft known as market
neutral meaning that the funds
were not supposed to be affected
by changes in interest rates. If (he
fund bought a mortgage-backed
bond that would Tall m value as
interest rates rose, it would hedge
that risk with an offsetting transac-
tion.

For example, the fund could bor-
row and sdl short a Treasury bond
— a position that would gain mon-
ey as interest rates rose. Or the fund
would use other instruments tike
futures, options and swaps related
to Treasury bonds.

Market-neutral investing, both

investing,

David Askin, the firm’s prinri- in the stock market and the bond
said that he had not received a market has been one of the hottest

trends among hedge fund investors,
including wealthy individuals, nan-

full accounting from these broker-
age firms, bat that it was likely that
nearly all of the $600 million in
equity capital provided by inves-
tors has been wiped out
In fact, it is possible that some
brokerage firms were not able to

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fueHervet

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Bloomberg Business News

PARIS — Die government
said Friday that it would post-
pone the rale of Bauque Hex-
vet and make a 750 million
French franc ($125 million)
capital injection to bring the
troubled state-controlled bank
bade to financial health.

The Economy Ministry said
that Hervet’s 1993 accounts
showed a 12 billion franc net
loss because of provisions for
bad loans to companies and
the real estate sector. This was
despite an operating profit of
327 milli on francs.

The 750 million francs comes
after a 150 tnfllion franc injec-
tion made in late 1993.

Basque Hervet was in the
first batch of state-owned
companies scheduled to be
sold to the private sector. Un-
like the others, however, it was
never meant to be sold in a
public offering but in a private
transaction. Initially, Crfidit
Commercial de . France was
said to be interested

U.S. banks and some aggressive
corporations. Increasingly, pension
funds have also bom investing in
the funds.

The funds make money by bet-
ting cm the spread, or price differ-
ence, between securities. They
would buy what they considered
undervalued mortgage-backed se-
curities and bet on a rise in price
relative to Treasury bonds.

The mortgage- backed securities
market is a fertile ground for such a

strategy because many of its instru-
ments are very complex. Brokerage
firms take a pool of mortgages and
divide them into dozens of differ-
ent securities with various terms.

Some securities only receive the
payments from the home
s others only receive the inter-
est These are known as POs and
IOs respectively. Others are even
more arcane.

The prices of these complex se-
curities have fallen sharply as inter-

est rates have risen over the last two
months. The losses were so sharp,
Mr. Askin said, that the funds were
not able to main tain their its
hedges. Thus, the losses increased.

By (he time the portfolio and its
losses were disclosed to investas
earlier this week, the hedges woe
small, making the funds highly vul-
nerable to further declines in the
bond market according to inves-
tors in the funds.

Mutual Fund Holders Hunker Down

By Leslie Wayne

New York Tima Service

NEW YORK — Mutual funds, which hold more
than $2 trillion in stocks and bonds, have remained
relatively calm despite the nail-biting performance of
the stock and bond markets.

As the markets gyrated in price, raising concerns of
an impending bear market for all kinds of securities,
mutual fund investors appeared to take Thursday’s
events in stride. The stock market was dosed Friday.

On Thursday, for the first time in months, sales
exceeded purchases of stares in stock and bond funds,
but only by a modest amounL Telephone calls were
up, many mutual fund companies reported, as inves-
tors peppered fund companies with questions.

Many investors switched their money into short-
term money-market funds, to protect against potential
further losses. But in general, most rand companies
said that small investors appeared to be sitting tighL

“We see concern, but not panic,” said John Bren-

nan, president of Vanguard Group, the third-largest
mutual fund group.

The calm behavior of mutual fund in restore, who
are smaller retail customers, is consistent with how
they reacted over similar market breaks in October
1987 and in August 1990, just before the Gulf War.

Even in 1987, when the Dow Jones industrials fell
by more than 500 points in one day, mutual fund
investors redeemed less than 2 potent of their assets.

Since then, individual investors have become far
more sophisticated about market movements, remain-
ing steady when markets fail And many have invested
in mutual funds for the long haul — for instance, to
pay for retirement — and are being advised to ignore
short-term fluctuations.

“Our phone volume really picked up quite a bit”
Jane P. Jamieson, a spokesman for Fidelity Invest-
ments, said. “A lot erf our investors have been through
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INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, SATURPAY-SUNPAY, APRIL 2 - 3, 1994

Italy’s Treasury
Says the Deficit
Is Still Growing

Are Foreign Firms Fleeing Spain?

70,000 Jobs at Risk as More Companies Cut Back

Complied by Our Staff From Dispauha

ROME — The rightist parties
that are expected to form Italy’s
next government will inherit a
more sluggish economy than was
previously expected and a widen-
ing budget deficit, the country's
Treasury warned Friday.

The publishing, retailing and
real-estate executive Silvio Berlus-
coni, whose rightist Freedom Alli-
ance finished first in the elections a
week ago, was meeting leaders of
other parties Friday to try to form a
government His alliance pledged
during the campaign to cut taxes
and boost employment

The Treasury’s quarterly budget
report said Italy’s economy would
grow 13 percent in 1994, rather
than the 1.6 percent growth in gross
domestic product that the depart-
ing prime minister, Carlo Azegtio
Ciarapi, had set as a target.

The sharp Tall in Italian interest
rates over the past year should help
economic recovery by making it
easier for businesses to borrow for
investment. Bui the Treasury cau-
tioned that recovery in Italy de-
pended on the health of other Eu-
ropean economies, which are also
battling to emerge from recession.

Its report said that Europe's re-
covery “will take some time” and
added that the recession in Italy
had been “accentuated” in the final
quarter of 1993.

Euro Disney
Sees Flat Sales

The Associated Press

PARIS — The unprofitable
Euro Disney SCA will post no
significant growth in revenue
before 1996, its c hairman. Phi-
lippe Bourguignon, said in an
interview published Friday.

For the first quarter of its
business year, ended Dec. 31,
Euro Disney reported sales of
828 million francs (SI45 mil-
lion), down 12 percent from a
year earlier.

For the year ended SepL 30.
the park operator had a loss of
534 billion francs. It expects to
report a loss for the current year.

In addition, although Mr. Ciampi
hyt aimed to hold this year’s budget
deficit to 1443 trillion lire ($90 b0-
lion). the Treasury said it would
come to 159 trillion lire, largely be-
cause of a deeper-than-expected re-
cession last year, when the economy
shrank 0.7 percent.

But the Treasury cautioned
against rushing into a new austerity
package, saying that would risk de-
laying recovery from Italy's worst
recession in its postwar history.

The report, which cautioned that
its findings were preliminary and
subject to revision, attributed 10
trillion lire of the deficit's widening
to lower tax receipts caused by the
recession.

The outgoing government also
had set a target of 31 trillion lire for
Italy's so-called primary surplus —
or revenue minus spending before
interest payments on the national
debL The Treasury report said the
primary surplus was more likely to
be around 10 trillion lire instead..

Receipts from the government’s
program of selling state assets are
not included in the provisions be-
cause they are going into a special
fund to reduce the government
debL The government in the past
four months has raised 7 trillion
lire by selling stakes in three state
banks, and it is due to sell an insur-
ance company.

(Reuters, Bloomberg)

Krught-Rnider

MADRID — Suzuki Motor Corp.% Nissan
Motor Co u Gillette Co., Kubota Corp.: All of
these multinationals have annmmrwri over
the past few weeks plans to shut down or
drastically reduce their operations in Spain.

The string of bad news has come on the
heeds of earlier cutbacks, including those
made by Volkswagen AC, Iveco Fiat SpA
and Mercedes-Benz AG. The dram of events
has sparked alarm in Spanish business circles
and the local press over whether the compa-
nies that poured their capital and know-how
into Spain in the exuberant late 1980s will
now withdraw en masse.

The press has given especially dose cover-
age to the latest reductions, since the Suzuki
plant — Santana Motor, which manufactures
four-wheel drive vehicles in the southern
town of Linares — plans to lay off nearly 60
percent of its work force.

Four-fifths of the population of Linares
earns a living either directly or indirectly
from the Santana plant, and workers have
reacted violently to Suzuki's layoff an-
nouncement.

Nissan plans to cut 1300 jobs over the next
two years, while Gillette and Kubota plan to
shut down altogether. In total the most re-
cent announcements mean the loss of about
3300 direct jobs, but when added to earlier
cases such as Volkswagen, which is closing a
SEAT assembly line in Barcelona, well over
70,000 jobs could be affected both directly
and indirectly, in a country where official
unemployment is now nearly 24 percent.

Some analysis say the exodus is not sur-
prising. The fast rise in Spain's labor costs
since it joined the European Union and the
deficiencies in infrastructure may have disil-
lusioned foreign investors who came to Spain
seeking low-cost labor and easy access to the
European market

Some executives say the most important
factor is the condition of infrastructure. “Pro-
duction costs today are very similar in all of
Europe,'' says Josep FemAndez Royo of the
toymaker Mattel Inc. “What companies give
the highest priority to are factors such as
infrastructure, property costs and availability
of telecommunications."

Others say that the Spanish work force has
turned out to be less productive than hoped.
Suzuki said its Linares factory has nearly

Suzuki said its Spanish
factory has three times as
many workers as its
fljiTifldifln and Japanese
plants, which make
more vehicles.

three times as many workers as ns Canadian
and Japanese plants, which manufacture
more vehicles.

Another problem dampening multination-
als' fervor is the rigidity of the Spanish labor
market. Most layoffs need official approval
required severance payments are high and
workers cm the job tor more than three con-
secutive years must be either dismissed or
given a permanent Contract-

Labor issues were died as the main prob-
lem encountered by 236 Japanese companies
in Spain last year, according to a survey
conducted by the Japan External Trade Or-
ganization in Madrid.

Many observers say foreign companies
have turned sour cm Spain as pan of a broad-
er disillusionment with its economic policies.

“The problem is the difference between the
measures are ann ounced and those that are
finally im p lemented." said the chief executive of
nm» multinatio nal consulting firm. He was refer-
ring to long-promised labor market reforms, a
much-discussed Kbcrafizaticn of lo cal markets
for services, and the failure to bring government
spending under control The government’s defi-
cit was estimated at a whopping 73 perosm of
gross domestic product in 1993.

But other analysts said that what was really
important about the multinationals 1 deci-
sions to abandon Spain was what it revealed
about Spanish business altitudes and Spain's
prospects of ever “catching up" with the rest
of Europe in income levels.

Mauro Guillen, assistant professor of in-
ternational manag ement at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a specialist in
foreign investment in Spain, said that the
recent string of bad news gave little real cause
for concern in itself.

“This affects a very' small percentage of the
stock of foreign direct investment in Spain,
maybe only 2 to 3 percent,” be said. “It also
appears that these cases are relatively isolat-
ed, and I don’t believe that they mark the
beginning of a new trend.”

Mr. Guillen said that in nearly all cases, the
companies in question were suffering from
overcapacity because of the economic down-
turn and needed to reduce output some-
where. “The basic variables have not
changed, and it is unlikely that multination-
als would have miscalculated so seriously
over what would happen to Spanish labor
costs in the future." he said.

Mr. Guillen said that he was more con-
cerned about a related problem: Not that
foreigners may no longer invest in Spain, but
that a Spain heavily dependent on foreign
investment is vulnerable because it is not
making its own investments abroad.

Investor’s Europe

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iwwu mwmI Herald Tribune

Very briefly:

East European Bankers Are Accused of Profiteering

former Soviet Union to Hungary by supplying arms to Hungary and/
jetting Hungarian companies buy stakes in Russian companies; a tranche .
equivalent to S713 million was repaid to Hungary last year with 2$:
Russian fighter aircraft

• The Paris Gob of government creditors delayed a derision cm whether
to approve the second half of a deal signed in 1991 to cut Poland’s debt in-
half; officials said that the new writeoff, worth about $8 billion, would
probably go through but that they wanted more time to study it and this.
might take several weeks.

• Smmm, the aircraft engine maker, said its loss widened to 804 million-'
French francs (5140.8 million) in 1993, from 794 million francs in 1992. a

• Tnritey’s lira fell 4.4 percent after the central bank cut its overnight^

borrowing rate by 50 percentage points to 200 percent. ~

• Suzuki Motor Corp. agreed to purchase Heron Suzuki PLC, which has
been marketing Suzuki vehicles in Britain for 19 years.

Reuters. AFP. Bloomberg

Reuters

PRAGUE — High lending mar-
gins and strict loan requirements of
East European banks threaten to
suffocate the region’s economic re-
vival, government officials and
banking analysts say.

Criticism of the banks rumbled
through the halls of a European
banking forum held in the Czech
capital last week.

At the conference, aimed at im-
proving the h anks ’ role in the trans-
formation of the region, the Czech
trade minis ter, Vl adimir Dlouhy,
was one of many to chide banks for
maintaining lending margins as
high as 7 percent above interbank
rates.

“We desperately need growth to
continue the transformation pro-
cess and I see this very much inter-
connected with the more flexible
behavior of the banking sector, like
it or not.” Mr. Dlouhy said.

Critics complained that bankers
in post-Communisl Eastern Europe
were applying stringent Western
lending requirements, such as high
collateral levels or two- and three-
year cash-flow forecasts, to compa-
nies that had little or no capital.

“The point obvious to all of us is
that the banking sector does not
seem to be as forthcoming in its
loan polities in general as it might
be." said Russ Trowbridge, eco-

nomic counselor at the U.S. Em-
bassy in Prague.

“Tins is a critical issue for the
next step in the transformation of
those countries that need to move
their economies along."

While Western banks usually
have leading margins — the differ-
ence between what they pay for
funds and the rate customers pay to
borrow — of less than a percentage
point. Eastern banks tend to have
margins of 5 percent or more.

“Czech banks still enjoy lending
margins of about 7 percent, while
banks in the West still measure
lending margins in basis prints,”
said Jiri Huebner. Czech and Slo-
vak team leader at the European

Bank for Reconstruction and De-
velopment

One percentage print equals 100
baas points.

Companies in the Czech Repub-
lic. for example, are dunged 15 to
18 percent on l oans. The Czech
discount rate is 8 percent.

In their defense, many bankers
said they were being singled out for
making money and reminded gov-
ernment officials that they were not
benevolent institutions.

“Look, we are a private bank."
said Andrzq Wojcik, executive vice
president of the Export Develop-
ment Bank of Warsaw. “We cannot
perform any social mission in this
society. We are given money by one

to waste this money.

VW Dismisses Lopez Report

markets needs to be X X

diem and we lend ii to another. We
are not going to waste this money.”

Bankers say the high risk of tend-
ing money to”
in uncertain markets n ee ds to be
taken into consideration, although
often it is not.

“The? percent lending margin is
an arithmetic average. If you
weighted the margin In' risk, you
would find they are much less than
that.” said Stanislav Rudcenko.
vice president of global research for
Bankers Trusu

“The government cannot have it
both ways.” be said. “It cannot ask
h anks here to lend as much as they
can without allowing them to cal-
culate the risk in there somehow."

Reuters

BONN — Volkswagen AG on Fri-
day dismissed as “hi g hly speculative"
a report thM said prosecutors would
charge the company's production
chief with industrial espionage.

A German weekly, Focus, said
the charges would be laid against
Jose Ignacio Ldpez de Aniortua.

VW, and Mr. Ldpez in particu-
lar, have been dogged by the allega-
tions of industrial espionage and
poaching executives since Mr. Ld-
pez switched from General Motors

Corp. last year, taking several GMj
managers with him. .

Focus said lawyers at GM be- /
hcved German and U.S. authorities j-
planned charges because of detailed^

its found in the possession,
of some of the executives who went 1
to VW with Mr. Ldpez.

VW said that Focus's allegations^
were “based on comments by Gen- "!
eral Motors lawyers — to our',
knowledge the authorities have not-;
stated anything of the sort”

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■ TOKYO — Japan’s major sotri-
oonduetor companies, worried that
they are now falling behind their
/ynencan competitors, are plan-
ning a collaborative research insti-
tute aimed at improving their tech-
nology and competitiveness,
industr y offic ials said Friday.

Ten companies are expected lo
join the Semiconductor Industry
Research Institute Japan when it is
established in early May, said Hisa-
shi Saito, a spokesman for NEC
Corp., Japan’s largest chipraaker
and one d the main backers of the
plan.

it appears that the effort will

it appears that the effon will be
considerably less ambitious than
Sematech, the American semicon-
ductor industry consortium, which
has its own dup factory. Basal in
Austin, Texas, Sematech has a bud-
get of about $200 million a year,
half from the federal government
and half from industry.

Mr. Saito said the budget and
exact plans for the institute are siiU

under discussion. It is not ^W-i ried
yet, for instance, whether the new
or g a nizatio n will have its own lab-
oratories or production facilities.

Another person familiar with the
plan said the organization will be
merely a “think tank” that wiB pro-
vide advice on long-term directions
and strategies for the industry but
k not e ngage in its own research.

An official of the Ministry of
International Trade and Industry
said the Japanese effort will not be
funded by the government.

Japanese companies swept to
control of the computer monoiy

dup business in the mid-1980s
thanks w large measure to a gov-
“nmem-industry technology de-
velopment program in the 1970s
““ l has long been cited as one of
?* Breat successes of Japan’s in-
dustrial policy.

But in more recent years, Japan’s
semiconductor companies have
shied away bom industrywide col-
laborations partly out of fear that
America companies would criticize
such efforts as unfair.

Now, however, Japanese semi-
conductor companies are under
pressure from -a revived American
industry and from South Korean
companies, which are making ma-
jor gains in the memory chip busi-
ness.

“if the Japanese industry does
nothing more the situation win be
very bad,” Mr. Saito said. “Now is
the time to take some action.”

Hajime Sasaki, the executive in
charge of semiconductors at NEC,
is expected to be the dm reman of
the new institute; Other companies
involved are said to be Fujitsu Ja4 .
Hitachi Ltd_ Mitsubishi Electric
Corp., Oki Electric Industry Co n
Sanyo Electric Co„ Sharp Corp.,
Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp., and a
unit of Matsushita Electric Indus-
trial Co.

In recent semiconductor trade
talks, Japan has sounded out the
United States about letting Japa-
nese and other foreign companies
join Sematech, a Japanese official
said.

But, he said, the answer so far
has been “no.”

Reuters

TOKYO — Corporate Japan welcomed a fresh
intake of graduates Friday, the first day of its new
financial year. But with its recession dra gging on.

ihdr numbers were smaller than in previous years,
and women were scarcer than ever.

Toyo Keizai Tnr , a finflTv^ ai-infnrtnmion com-
pany, said a survey it had mad* showed that one in
every three companies had offered no jobs at all to
women university graduates.

The survey, covering 1,965 puMdy traded com-
panies and insurers, showed that 1,01 1 had cut their
number erf women recruits and 680 had ratrwi none.

As a result, the number of women graduates
entering the work force plunged 29 percent from
last year, to 15,600, barely half the peak level of
1992, Toyo Keizai said.

The total number of graduates hired fell 26
percent, to 85,075.

The bad news for young, well-educated women
was found across the board; even at companies,
such as Sumitomo Bank LuL, that previously ac-
tively sought women recruits, the survey showed.

“It is a hopeless situation for female graduates,”
Toyo Keizai commented. “And in 1995 the situa-
tion will be even worse.”

With this brick wall standing between them and
s business career, young women have been casting
around for other ways to find work.

Some have derided to go on to graduate school
or take specialized training, whereas others are
accepting part-time jobs, said Masaya Kinoshita,
genual manager at Recruit Co n Japan's biggest
publisher of employment news.

One television report said some were looking for
work elsewhere, such as in Hong Kong. Some of
those who had come from small towns in Japan
were returning to their hometowns, where they
could live more cheaply.

“It is strange to say that only women have been
hit tty the recession,” Mr. Kinoshita said. “But
companies axe cutting down on office workers, and
many women work in this sector."

He also said fewer vacancies were turning up in
such jobs, because the women who have them were
staying longer.

“Previously, women workers quit when they got
married, but nowadays, with household revenue
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China Says Bonds Selling Well

Compiled by Our Staff From Ddpoteka

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expiry and still earn more interest
than they would in a hank.

Friday evening, C hina Central
Television reported that sales of
treasury braids hit 440 million yuan
in Beijing, 400 millio n yuan in
Shanghai, 100 million yuan in Da-
lian and 50 min i nn yuan in Shen-
yang, Jinan and Changsha.

Ik issuing period is to las until
June 30, but the state television
quoted the central bank deputy gpv-
oncr, Dai Xungloog as saying the

sales were going so briskly that the
issue “can be completed in advance."

The bond issue is the cornerstone
of Beijing's battle against inflation.
Starting this year, the central gov-
ernment won't print money to fi-
nance its deficit. Instead, it will
issue bonds to cover increased
spending on energy, transportation
and agriculture.

Overseas econormsts say the 1994
baud issue is based on the gamble
that economic growth wfll be fast and
stable enough to bring in sufficient
tax revenue lo pay investors back.

(Bloomberg, Reuters)

political opposition called for the
finance minister to follow him.

The governor, Jaffar Hussein, re-
signed one day after he announced
that the bank had lost 5.7 billion
ringgit ($2.1 billion) in trading last
year, said “errors were made" and
took personal responsibility.

The finance minister, Anwar
Ibrahim, who is also dq>u<y prime
minster, said Friday that the gov-
ernment bad accepted Mr. Jaffar’s
application for early retirement, ef-
fective May 1.

The bank, long known as one of
the most swashbudding players on
the currency markets, had lost 93
billion ringgit in 1992, largely as a
result of the collapse of the pound
when Britain withdrew from Eu-
rope’s exchange-rate mechanism. A
central bank report released on
Thursday attributed the losses in
1993 to unwinding forward posi-
tions taken the year before.

The opposition leader in Malay-
sia’s parliament, Lim Kit Swmg, sad
the losses “must rank as the greatest
firumrial sranrial in Malayrian hie .

tray” and called for Mr. Anwar to
resign. Mr. Lim asked for the cre-
ation of a commisson of inquiry.

Syed Husin Ali, president of the
opposition Malaysian Peoples Par-
ty, said that Mr. Anwar had to act
honorably by resigning.

Economists say the foreign ex-
change losses would make the cen-
tral bank technically insolvent
without the government’s backing.
The losses exceed its paid-up capi-
tal and its general reserves.

(Reuters. Bloomberg, AFP)

Sources: Reuters. AFP

LucmanomJ HeroM Trit'unc

Very briefly:

• Occidental Petroleum Corp. agreed to take an interest in an oil and gas
exploration block off Vietnam, the head of the state oil company.
Peiro Vietnam, said; separately, Hanoi announced a 20 percent cut m
profit taxes on businesses owned by overseas Vietnamese.

• Sooth Korea's central bank designated 76 subsidiaries of the country's
30 largest conglomerates as special companies not subject to credit
controls, bank officials said, in a move to help the companies obtain
f inancing so they can better compete globally.

• India's first private bank is opening in Ahmedabad; UT1 Bank LuL, a
venture of Unit Trust of India, the country’s largest mutual fund, plans to
open brandies in six other dries within a year.

• Malaysia has licensed a local consortium to run the country’s second
national carrier, which is expected to call itself Air Asia Sdn. and to start
by operating charter flights lo tourist destinations in Asia.

• Sanyo Electric Co. plans to make about 120,000 color television sets for
the Polish market at its factory in Warsaw this year.

AFP, Reuters. Bloomberg

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due to fashion swinging around to
its tastes. Its long, unswerving em-
phasis on value for money has won
it customers in a new age of tight
family budgets.

On the cost side, it benefits from
a uniquely dose relationship with
its myriad suppliers. John Rich-
ards, an analyst with NatWest Se-
curities, calk that relationship the
cornerstone of Marks A Spencer’s
success.

Fully 80 percent of everything
Maries A Spencer sells is made in
Britain, much of it by companies
that have been dunning out goods
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man, traveled to America in 1932
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in dealing directly with suppliers
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“We help them with the design
and even with technology,” Sir
Richard said of his suppliers. That
assistance plus the volume of goods
Marks & Spencer buys helps re-
duce costs. But it is the constant
product innovation that, as one an-
alyst puts it, “keeps the excitement
level up” and the cash registers
humming.

Five stories above Sir Richard’s
office on Baker Street, men and
women in long white coats and
hairnets studiously rate new food
dishes destined for Marks & Spen-
cer stores in the harshly tit, antisep- -
tic surroundings of the company’s
test kitchens. One floor bdow,
fashion experts ponder materials
and styles destined for the racks in
1995.

Their labors have helped to es-
tablish a solid reputation for the
company’s Saint Michael brand, a
name that came from Simon
Marks's unilatera l beatification of
his father in 1928.

a bran^nametiut^^rans different

things to different people,” Mr.
A1 un-Jones of Lehman said, saying
that in Barcelona, the Marks &
Spencer store is located next to
Cartier and has an u p scale image to

match

Ever cautious about overextend-
ing the company. Sir Richard ac-
knowledges his happiness with its
progress internationally but es-
chews haste. Even in East Aria, a
market he singles out as the most
promising around, he continues to
weigh his options. The company
has six small stores in Hong Kong
and has been asked by Beijing to
open stores across the border, but

“it has got to be carefully re-
searched,” Sir Richard said.

Easier to entertain is the notion
of granting franchises, of letting
others pay to take the risk erf setting
up Marks & Spencer stores. There
are 74 such outlets in 19 countries,
and applications are pending for
100 more.

Marks & Spencer also recently
announced plans to expand its fi-
nancial services operation in Brit-
ain. which last year earned it £26
milli nn. It began with a company
charge card in 1985. and mown! on
to personal loans and mutual funds
three years later.

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FIRST COLUMN

Didn’t Know?
Capitalism
Can Be Messy

I S it a cabbage or a king? Analysts
looking al today’s corporate environ-
ment would undoubtedly have a prob-
lem answering even that kind erf ele-
mentary question as the traditional
definitions of corporate business activity be-
come increasinglY inadequate.

Most banks have long since ceased to
make money out of lending — foreign ex-
change and the swaps market make a large
(but still largely undisclosed) contribution to
profits. Similarly, major industrial concerns
will often own a large share of the banks they
use to help them analyze their markets.

And insurance companies have immense
difficulty in making money from writing
policies, Many of them are veiy good at asset
management. But isn't that what specialist
fond and pension man ngmeni firms are sup-
posed to be good at?

Maybe. But the large stakes some of the
fund groups hold in industrial concerns have
made them enticing targets for corporate
predators. The thinking is that if you acquire
the fund manag ement group, you automati-
cally acquire influence over the corporations
in which it has holdings. Given the spreading
influence of “due diligence" and notions of
shareholder conscience and responsibility,
acquiring a fund manager is also an excellent
way of exerting an influence on corporate
management which is “ethical." This process
is translated by some as forcing the favorite
liberal prejudice of the shareholder down the
throats of company management.

All this might seem rather messy. It is. The
important question is whether it is a good
thing. And die answer is yes, for two reasons.
First, it encourages pluralism and interna-
tionalism (the latter being a sadly unpopular
concept nowadays) among managers. It is
difficult to toss a problem to the bankers to
sort out when the bank and its corporate
client have large cross-shareholdings in one
another. Second, it provides a rare example
of the body following the spirit of the com-
mercial world. Industry is messy, as well as
being almost incestuously interconnected.
That fact has ail kinds of implications for
fashionable “ethical screening" of invest-
ment. Il also means that managers who wish

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to manage effectively should be aware of the
need to be i

: polymaths.

M.B.

OST of us wouldn't think twice
about buying a foreign car if
the price and model were right.
Yet, when it comes to buying
insurance products, the likelihood is that
most consumers will plump for a local prod-
uct, regardless of whether a better deal is
available across international borders.

Europe offers an excellent example of this
kind of consumer conservatism. In theory,
the European C ommissi on's so-called third
life directive will create a single marketplace
in life insurance and enable every European
citizen to buy the same insurance product by
mid- 1994. But in practice it seems that a
number of hurdles have to be surmounted
before this becomes a realistic option.

Until insurance companies can offer pro-
posal forms and policy documents in several
different languages, many consumers will be
understandably reluctant to shop outside
their own countries. Insurance contracts are
difficult enough for mother tongue speakers
to understand, let alone foreigners. And, if a
dispute should arise, it may be difficult for
the insured to plead his case without spend-
ing vast sums on legal assistance. Even if the
insured has a minor query or problem with
the contract, the language barrier could
prove (insurmountable.

“As the market for cross border insurance
sales is relatively small and unlikely to in-
crease dramatically in the next few years,"
said an industry analyst, “it is doubtful that
the major insurers will invest much money in
cross border sales and marketing — especial-
ly if they have foreign subsidiaries which
could lose business as a result of such a
move."

Nonetheless, even if the insurers seem
unwilling to actively market their products
to nonresidents, there is nothing to stop
individuals approaching the companies di-
rectly — or is there? Confusion surrounding
the tax treatment of cross-border insurance
products may pose a problem for some indi-
viduals. According to Ed Nadnovich, assis-
tant manager for the Belgian subsidiary of
Italian insurer, Generali, it is not altogether
clear how these products will be taxed in the
future.

“In most states, the law provides for tax

deductability of premiums provided the pol-
icy is bought from a national insurer. For
example, a Belgian, buying a British insur-
ance policy, would not be able to take advan-
tage of these deductions. Until the matter is
resolved, the single market in insurance will
r emain an interesting theory, rather than a
practical goal."

Despite the tax handicap, a case can still
be made for cross-border insurance shop-
ping. As the graphic illustrates, the disparity
between average premium levels for term
insurance throughout Europe is striking
While a French national would probably not
benefit from buying a British policy, a young
Austrian would pay nearly double the premi-
um of a young British or Irish policyholder.
Even if tax relief is not available on the
policy, the Austrian would still make a sig-
nificant savings buying a policy abroad.

The widely varying costs are the direct
result of the “tariff" versus “free market"
countries in Europe, more than the result of
different mortality trends in today’s Europe.
In the “tariff" countries, which include Ger-
many. Austria, Switzerland, Italy and, to a
lesser extent, Spain, premium levels have to
approved by the local authorities. This has
resulted in a cartel-type situation, where in-
dividual insurers charge more or less the
camp premiums as their national competi-
tors. Generally, these premiums tend to be
pitched on the high side compared with
average premium levels in the “free market”
countries of France, Ireland and Britain.

Before approaching a foreign insurer, con-
sumers will need to be sure they understand
bow its contract works. For example, Ger-
man insurance contracts are written mi a
with-profits basis. The initial premiums,
therefore, are not guaranteed.

British and Irish insurance companies are
unusual in that most offer discounts for
nonsmokers. Amongst the younger genera-
tion, a difference of about £10 (SI 5) a year is
not going to be significant, but once you pass
the age of SO, the difference between smoker
and nonsmoker rales is marked. The average
rate for smokers in Ireland is £1,006, com-
pared with £748 for nonsmokers. Insurers
from other European countries rarely make
a distinction between the two classes.

The attitude towards the AIDS threat
among young males has also had an effect on
premium levels — particularly in Britain,

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Executives in danger
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Immobile automobile market
How insurers make money

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where rates for this group increased sharply
in the late 1980s.

“Insurance companies are now taking a
more optomistic view of the situation and
reducing rates accordingly," said a spokes-
man Tor Commercial Union. But large dif-
ferences in premium levels do still exist in
Britain as a result of the AIDS question, so if
you are thinking about buying a British
insurance policy it is worth approaching
more than one company to compare prices.

As well as boning up on the different
markets and contracts, insurance shoppers
will have to pay special attention to the
c u rr en cy risk inh erent in products of this
type. Most insurers will expect clients to pay
premiums in the currency of the country
where the contract is written. If the exchange
rate moves against the insured, he could end
up paying higher and higher premiums to
mitigate die effects of currency fluctuations.
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Putting a Price on the Art Collectors

By Judith Rehak

T

HE maid knocks over the
Tiffany lamp. A child
armed with color crayons
indulges in a bit of graffi-
ti — on a valuable Greek sculpture.
An elderly woman with failing eye-
sight is unaware that her Magritte
painting has been replaced by a
fake.

Such tales are all in a day's work
in fine-art insurance, one of the
most specialized segments of the
property-casualty insurance indus-
try.

Fine art brokers and underwrit-
ers are fond of printing out that
their business is not like insuring
autos. “It's not based on a manual,
where you just go down until you
find the right slot," said Hunting-
ton Block, president of a fine-art
insurance agency in Washington
that bears his name.

One thing docs seem to be uni-
versal. however. The current cost of
fine-art insurance in Europe and in
the United States falls imo a range
of 10 to 30 cents per $100 of valua-
tion.

Beyond that, a host of variables
governs the cost of an insurance

policy. First, the value of the art,
teina

whether it is pre-Columbian arti-
facts or a Picasso, must be deter-
mined, something that may be
done by an invoice from an auction
boose, or by a qualified appraiser,
or both. Then there are such con-
cerns as how the object is being
cared for and displayed, frequency
of transportation — among resi-
dences or in [ending to museums
(more common in the United
States) — the location of the an
work (a problem if it is in earth-
quake-prone California or hurri-
cane-prone Florida), and, of
course, protection from theft and
fire.

As an example of the details that
set fine-art insurance apart, the
cost can be affected by the types of
paint and materials used by an art-
ist “You can have a Roy .Lichten-
stein with a matte acrylic finish.
You just touch it with your finger
and it can be damaged, and it's
almost impossible to touch up."
observed Nigel Prescot of Hiscox
Syndicates Ltd-, a Loudon under-
writer active in fine-arts insurance.

Then there are nonartistic con-
siderations like “adverse risk." If
your art ownership consists of one
painting hanging in solitary splen-
dor on your wall, you may have to
pay up to 50 percent more than if
the nsk of loss or damage were
spread among a collection.

The principle also applies, some-
what differently, to big-time collec-
tors. “If you have a total collection
valued at $5 million, you ought
keep S2 million of it at your New
York apartment, another S2 mil-
lion at a second home, and SI mil-
lion lent out So you might just
cany a $2 million policy because
it’s scattered and one loss won't
wipe out the entire collection,” said
Mr. Block.

The size of an object of art can

have an impact as well. Silver can
be more higi risk than a painting or
piece of furniture. The reason: It's
easierfora thief fo carry off a piece
of antique stiver than a Louis XVI
desk.

One of the most obvious consid-
erations in art insurance is the bur-
glar alarm, where culture and tech-
nology both come into play. “The
level and standard of securities sys-
tems in the United States is much
more advanced (ban in Europe."
said Dietrich von Frank, President
of Nordstera Insurance Co. of
America, fine-arts underwriters.
< -y^ g^ *The response times of security
and direct wire companies is more
advanced as well"

There is one hitch to burglar
alarms, however. Some collectors
simply neglect to turn them on. In
Britain, where alarms that ring in
the central police station have only
come into wide use in the past five
years, “people just go around the
comer and don't turn it on. and art
is stolen,” said Mr. PrescoL “Or
they’ll be sitting watching televi-
sion in a big house with the alarm
turned off. and a robbery will occur
somewhere else in the house and
they won't realize it By far the
most common theft in the U.K. is

during the day.”

thefts make the head-

But while
lines, sheer carelessness is the bane
of art insurers. A surprising num-
ber of claims result from ait work
falling off the wall because nails
come loose or cords fray. Other
follies committed by art owners in-
clude sending valuable drawings
via commercial couriers; in another
episode, a silver Etruscan urn val-
ued in six figures was hauled
around in a shopping bag until it
broke into pieces. Nor are muse-
ums immune; Alexandra Schilling
of Alexander & Alexander, the
U.S. insurance brokerage, recalled
an incident where a contemporary

lent to an exhibition was
tom when an overzealous mainte-
nance person hit it with a vacuum
cleaner.

To head off such disasters, bnF
'kers and underwriters in fine-art
insurance are competing to offer
their clients services ranging from
such ample advice as not hanging
artwork over a working fireplace to
supervising packing and transpor-
tation of artwork. Many of these
brokers, particularly in the United
States, sport degrees in art history
and have backgrounds in museum

work

Art insurers and brokers have
also become amateur psychologists
who pay close attention to. as onp
diplomatically put it, “the charac-
ter" of the art owners they insure.'

“Yes, we insure the object, ha
mainly we insure human beings,"
said Mr. von Frank. “It soands a
bit snobbish, but is the art being
bought for investment, or is the
person a true collector?"

Mr. Prescot is more blunt. “Tbe
real collectors really look after their
art The worst clients are the get-
rich-quick kind who’ve decided to
put together a collection in two
years and show it off to a lot qf
people."

But in the United States, even
serious collectors are seen as bong
proud of their collections and more
ready to lend to museums and ex-
hibits. By contrast Europeans are
more discreet, often because wealth
taxes make them reluctant to reved
the value of their an works and
discourage them from i
one broker said he had seen
arts polides in Europe carrying no
names. But there are also sharply
different attitudes. “In Europe, a
piece of fine an may have been in
the family forever, and outfit sever
have been appraised. It's simply
viewed as a family possesaon,"
said Ms. Schilling.

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in

Cash Put Into Mutual Funds
Plunges 47% In February

Net cash flow into American stock and
bond mutual funds plummeted 47 percent in
February, to $15.5 billion from $29 3 billion
in January, according to recent figures from
the Investment Company Institute. Re-
demptions held fairly steady, meaning the
fall was due mainly to a lack of new money
being invested, rather than money being
yanked oat of funds.

Bond funds suffered an especially acute
decline, with 'just $1.1 billion trickling in

during February, compared with $11.] bti-
Hon the month before, tbe ii

industry group
said. Slock funds also saw a decrease of
incoming cash, down 21 percent to $14.4
billion from $18.3 billion.

Such declines are alarming because the
American markets have become increasingly
dependent on a continuous stream of money
from funds to prop them up in what many
observers say is an absence of fundamental
reasons to move them higher. Since January.
stocks and bonds have fallen sharply.

Those declines sent the total value of fund
assets a bit lower during the month, to $2.14
trillion from $2.16 trillion. A year ago they
stood at $1.75 trillion. One bright spot in the
figures is a rise in the liquid assets ratio to 8.9
from 8 J. Tbe ratio, which is the percentage
of fund assets held as cash, is seen as a
contrary market indicator. The markets tend
to move higher when fund managers have
less of their clients’ assets invest

the rampant bull runs of many major and
emerging markets, is now beginning to cover
itself against a potential fall with a series of
launches of funds investing in gold. Gold is a
classic hedge against falling shares — al-
though it failed to react significantly to the
crash of 1987 and subsequent lean periods in
stock markets.

Tbe latest fund, styled as being “for the
commodity-oriented investor’ comes from
DB Investment Management, the Luxem-
bourg mutual fund arm of Deutsche Bank.

“Based on investments in bonds which
account for a good half of its assets, the fund
wffl invest on the precious metal markets,"
said the bank, “purchasing gold on precious
metal accounts. Investments in silver, plati-
num and paiadium round off the portfolio."
The fund will use futures and options con-
tracts, which will enable it “to fully follow
the fluctuations of the gold price, despite its
investment in bonds." The managers say
they expect the gold price to improve to $400
an ounce within a year.

Initial charges are 3 percent, and all in-
come is reinvested.

For more information, call DB Invest-
ment Management in Luxembourg at (352)
42101 835.

chines (ATMs) has become available in Rus-
sia.

“First there was Prague in February '92(
then Budapest in *93, and now Europay
International, working with local banks, b
providing a common ATM network in EasY
em Europe — this time in Moscow,” said
Ron H. Williams, chief executive officer of
Europay International. . .

Let’s just hope that the rates cardholders
get from ATMs in Moscow compete with
what is available on the street.

If You’ve Got $300,000,
Smith Bamey Wants to Talk

If you have $300,000 to invest, and the
concept of a multiadviser-managed furores
hedge fund appeals. Smith Barney Shears®!
may have the product for you. The firm has
ttbeSE

just launched the SBS Overview Fund, wfaicb
offers investors access to global markets,'
some of them highly specialist or “noncott*
ventionaL” Tbe firm sayis that investors with
existing stock and bond portfolios nnr Kt
consider the fund as a way of ootentis
increasing portfolio returns wI' J
the level of risk.

As Hedge, Funds Turning
Their Attention to Geld

Bearish about stock markets? The mutual
fund industry, which has made a kilting from

Money Machines In Moscow:
But at What Exchange Rate?

After the Berlin Wall, the bole in the wall.
Great capitalist triumphs of the late 20th
century now include the extension of West-
era-style cash delivery. According to Euro-
pay International, the organization that rep-
resents the linking of the Eurocheque,
Eurocard-MasterCard and Cirrus card-
holders. a new line of automated teller ma-

The trading manager of the fund is Snutfl
Barney Shearson Futures Manag ement Infc*
which has more than S60G million und*^
m a na g em ent. The money will be spre*« -

across five traders and three hedge funds-

k lnsh sttf#

The fund will be listed on the lnsh .
exchange and is not open to Irish or
citizens.

Readers are advised that the fund is

X rienced investors only, and professional
se should be taken before investing.
For more information, call Smith Barney
Shearson in London at (44) 71-54^-5567. *

V-

INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 2-3, 1994

Page 13 ^

THE MONEY REPORT

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Risk Filled Times for Battered In

By Conrad deA enBe

HERE is no safe placed |'R a W;>
be an insurance company
^day- The investment
markets, which insurers 280 1 —
Acoant on to turn losses into profits. ' •= 1
have toned treacherous. At the ■ ' -

spe time, the premiums they

charge have peaked in many mar- ■ ■
krts, something that is likely to be i • -
^od for polkyholders but not for - =-V
shareholders. 2&Q ,

“ The/v e just re-emerged back r
into profit after two or three years

of ksses,” Kevin Ryan, an insur- -#$50 ; ■

moe analyst at the brokerage of v r“ , , i
Pammure Gordon, observed of die ■ a ifl J
British market. “There was too OJjf!

much capacity and competition. -T .

They’ve been slashing their mar- zMEgj

gins, and whfle they’ve done that
they’ve lost money. In the last 18 '-230,' wSSjaii

months, seeing the size of the *>'*' !S3kSr
losses, they’ve hiked rates up. Now V» '
they’re going to compete again.”

British insurers are ah^d of < »&}..■• .

their Continental counterparts in

the cyde of rises and falls in premi- Scurce - Bloomberg
tun rates, said Andrew Goodwin,

■

' urp. . . . mance m many

• The underwriting cycle in the most companies -
XJJC. is at a peak; the question is show ch,m

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□ies have had only fair perfor- stock prices, but they’ve been
mance in many cases. Chans of slammed in the Iasi six months.”

"UJC is at a peak; the question is
bow far it deteriorates over coming
years.” he said. “We’ve also seen
quite a recovery in the I talian mar .
keL We fed underwriting results
are getting close to a peak. Rates, if
anything, are still moving up, but
only marginally. Then you go to
cither European markets and you’re
at much earlier stages of recovery.”
$ In Germany, for instance, rates
' have been moving up the last cou-
ple of years and are nicely to contin-
ue to do so. Mr. Goodwin said he
expected Ge rman insurers to have
earned about the same last year as
in 1992, which was a profitable
year, and to earn still more this year
and next.

Even further behind in the cycle
is France, where, he said, “we’ve
seen a better trend in the commer-
cial property market, although rate
rises haven't been quite as sharp as
in Germany. France is actually
probably the lagging one in the
major European insurance mar-
kets.”

Shares of leading insurers like
Affiant of Germany »nrf Generali
of Italy have done well in the last

most companies, wherever they are,
show sharp declines in the last
three to six months, especially com-
pared with the broad equity mar-

surers

“where they've ever wnuen at 100
percent.

‘The whole reason you write in-
surance is to bring funds in to in-
vest," he added. “Depending on
how long you can bold onto those
funds before you pay cut J rases,
you can make a lot of money.”

As important as investment
warnings are, an insurance compa-
ny “doesn’t make widgets.” Mr.
Ryan said. “It's got to insure some-
thing."

It is this fact that explains the
underwriting cycle. With competi-
tion stiff in many major markets,
policyholders are likely to get a
break on prices. An exception is in
Continental Europe, where, Mr.
Goodwin said, “policyholders wfl)
be paying more for their insurance
because rates are tending to rise
faster than inflation.'’

In Britain, by contrast, “we're
seeing price rises flatten out and in
some cases fall.” said Mr. Ryan,
adding that rates are likely to stay
low for some time.

In the United Stales, Mr. DineUi
said, “the small rate-payer has
probably already seen some in-
creases, [but] some dumb capital is
moving in, with price cutting going
on. You might say the curve has
turned down.”

War Zones: When You Really Want Out

By Michael D. McNickle

K EN RUTHERFORD hit a land-
mine. The U.S. expatriate was on
his way to a business meeting in
So mali a when his Land Rover
triggered an armor-piercing bomb — blowing
bis vehicle into the air. When it landed, Mr.
Rutherford said, it looked as if h had been
“dipped in a blender.”

The expatriate was medically evacuated to
Geneva, and then repatriated’ to his home-
town in Denver. Mr. Rutherford, who is an
employee of the International Rescue Com-
mittee, said that medical expenses have ex-
ceeded £250,000.

Most international executives steer dear of
war zones. Bui what happens when one is
caught unexpectedly in midst of turmoil?
Experts say that what expatriates may not
realize is that almost all medical, death and
disability insurance policies do not cover any
injuries sustained through any kind of politi-
cal conflict. The list of situations in which
insurance is void is long and indudes war.

civil unrest corns and attempted coups, in-
surrection. revolution and terrorism.

Andrew Thacker. Director of Fenchurch
International LuL. an insurance brokerage in
London, said that international employers
are increasingly checking and buttressing
policies for expats whose territory extends
beyond the beaten path. Such incidents as the
siege of the Russian parliament building last
October tend to make benefit managers ner-
vous.

Mr. Thacker said bis firm has recently
“had a number of inquiries, for example oil
company executives going to Siberia.

“And we normally suggest that they do
take out some sort of war cover because
[while] there's no problem at the moment,
you really don’t know what’s going to hap-
pen.”

The rates for this son of cover vary a lot
and depend specifically on where the expat is
going and any particular risks that might be
connected with his occupation. In general,
however, Mr. Thacker said £100,000 in acci-
dental death and disability would run about
$300 for a middle-aged executive. A medical

policy that would take effect in the event of
trouble costs about 51,000 and would only
cover the expat outside the United States.
The policies are Dot for someone who plans to
via I a war zone. They only cover people who
unexpectedly wind up in one.

Evacuation can also be a major expense.
Mr. Rutherford notes that his medical extri-
cation from So malia, which required three
pilots, a doctor, nurse and stewardess, cost
about 5100,000. This was covered by his
employer’s contract with S.O.S. Internation-
al He also credits them with saving his life.

Michael Kelly, president of S.O.S. in Phila-
delphia, said the company recently had be-
gun offering security evacuation services in
addition to their traditional medical assis-
tance service: Mr. Kelly said that “in the
event that there's a political uprising or tur-
moil we provide a service where we send a
plane.”

He said (hat the company just evacuated
200 people ■ from Algeria. The cost for the
security insurance is 5100, and is available to
people who sign up for their medical evacua-
tion policy, which is 5340 a year.

“What has been dominating
share prices is interest rate trends,"
Mr. Goodwin said. “Prices are fall-
ing because of bond prices," which
have beat dropping sharply in
most markets for several months.

The decline in insurance shares
has been particularly acute in the
United States, where yields on
long-term Treasury bonds have ris-
en past 7 percent from about 5.75
percent. Since September, Stan-
dard & Poor’s insurance composite
index has declined nearly 20 per-
cent, to 227 from 275. Some of the
worst performers among American
insurers are health and life compa-
nies, which are more sensitive to
interest rates than property and ca-
sualty insurers.

“The life and health sector has
been the hardest hit in the insur-
ance industry spectrum due to in-
terest rate expectations,” said
Adam Klanber, an analyst at Duff
& Phelps. “The fundamentals

Before that, "they had been do- on. You might say the curve has
mg relatively wefl. Lower rates had turned down!”

teWwtafMiaJs: s= mTOu,ddKaite

insurance policy bmare like mum- up^^y - ^ cKneflj said. “aD
al funds m many respects. . 7^^ ,Cr

Offbeat: Singers’ Voices, Runners’ Legs

al funds m many respects.

Interest rates are critical for in-
surers because they determine in
large measure the investment gains
they earn on customers’ premiums
between the time they are paid and

in all no insurers have done well in
the last couple of years,”

The battering has been so thor-

By Philip Crawford

I MAGINE the folio wing sce-
nario: Your employer has
temporarily assigned you to
an area of the globe where
social unrest and violence are prev-
alent If you decline the posting.

UailGiWg Ud5 IvCll >U U1U1“ I f- .

ough, however, lhai some adven- ^ irecL

turous buyers are stepping in. You have an adequate package

between tee time they are paid and ^ ^ ^ h ing now of health and life insurance bene-
the dme they are paid out m claims. ^ p^lc gfcreaEring a totof good fit* to protect you and your family.
Without those gams, there is sel- companies got hit as much as bad but moving into an area where the

companies.” he observed. “The probabmty ofphyricalmjuryisrel-
iiMS^™ sentiment is turning to the fact that atively high prompts you to seek

you need exposure to the financial some adtetioSal coverage. There’s
siting business alone, Mr. Ryan ^ Y ou*ju* ^ „ dedde a sma n problem, howe£: None of

which are the good ones that you the mains t ream insurance compa-
A key number for the industry is want to own.” nies will touch your situation be-

in some cases, though, investors cause it’s too risky. Where do yon
e in no hurry. “In general of the turn?

the combined ratio, which is based

on the sum of an insurer’s expenses are in no hurry. “In general of the
and losses resulting from claims, life insurance companies I follow,"

minus premiums. A figure under Mr. Klanber said, Tm not really - £“**. °(. spe “ a J“ d

100 represents a profiL Will Dinelli looking for stocks to rebound that msurance,or v ^ facre

of Aigus Research said that Ameri- much m 1994. *Why should I buy pro* 4 * 00 ? against anything from
can companies have been running an insurance stock if 1 expect inter- 811 ® MCuUve kidnapping, the giving
ratios of 106 to 110. right around cst rates to keep going upT Thai’s of bad financial advice, the spilling
the historical average. “There are the psychology m the market right of nuclear waste to the deadening

year, while those of British compa- probably won’t be hit as hard as

can companies have been running
ratios of 106 to 110, right around
the historical average. “There are
very few times in history,” he said,

Don’t Overlook Protecting Your Plastic

By Barbara Wall

bank in writing immediately, tee lowing the loss or theft of a card,
chances are that he wiQstiH be held but once the loss is reported the

C REDIT cards are a flexi-
ble and convenient alter-
native to cadi, but if
they fall into the wrong
hands the cost to the cardholder
can be crippling. A spokesman for
the European Bureau of Consum-
ers’ Unions, or BEUG said that a
“significant” number of banks in
the European Union hold the card-
holder fully responsible for losses

liable until the following Tuesday.
“Even in. Belgium and, France,

cover is unlimited.

francs of coverage prior to notifica-
tion of the loss or theft of a credit
card The scheme will also reun-

of nuclear waste to the deadening
of a wine expert's taste bods can be
bought if one is willing to pay the
premium. The explosion of high
technology, an increasingly liti-
gious global society, and the high
profits to be made from nonregu-
lated contract insurance have made
specialty underwriting a growth in-
dustry, valued at about $7 billion

tants, stockbrokers and investment
advisers to insure themselves for
protection.

And those planning to take an
exotic trip, such as an African safa-
ri, now often deem it prudent to
buy ancillary medical coverage to
provide for the financial conse-
quences of being mauled by an ani-
mal or contracting a rare tropical
fever. The possibilities are virtually
unlimited

“You can insure anything.” said
Nick Doafc, a spokesman for the
venerable insurer Lloyd's of Lon-
don which, despite its recent well-
publicized financial difficulties, is
still acknowledged as the weald
leader in writing insurance for spe-
cialized risks. "Provided you can
show an insurable interest"

And what is an “insurable inter-
est”? In the world of specialty un-
derwriting, a rough definition
might be anything deemed by an
insurer to be a bona fide liability, of
virtually any form, which through
the course of possible events could
cause someone financial damage.
The key to executing a specialty

1 percent of the amount of cover-
age bought- With specialty insur-
ance, premiums can reach 10 per-

might indeed be able to show that um rates and contract forms, and
his potential loss of income would therefore often more profitable,
be huge if he were permanently According to the Insurance Infor-
di sab led-” matron Institute, a U.S. trade

In such a scenario, however, the group, the premiums for standard
star athlete's lifestyle would still be hfe, homeowner, and auto insur-
thoroughly e xamin ed before the ance policies are often a fraction of
policy could be written. “The tin- 1 percent of the amount of cover-
derwriter might say. ‘What's this age bought- With specialty insur-
fcllow do in his spare time? " Mr. ance, premiums can reach 10 per-
Doak said. "If the answer is ‘He cent of the coverage ceiling and
skis,’ the underwriter might say, even higher in some cases.

‘Either be stops skiing or the premi- “It’s much more profitable to in-

um doubles.' A person thus insured sure Pb3 Collins’s voice linn it is to
could not expose himself to undue insure Phil Collins's house,” said
risk.” Steve Goldstein, an institute

The rise in while-collar crime has spokesman, referring to the rock
led financial institutions to start anger.

protecting themselves against what A trend, say U.S. industry
is referred to as “balance sheet sources, is for targe, mainstream
risk,” or anything that can cata- U.S. insurance concerns to form
strophically damage financial subsidiaries to tap into specialty
health. Such possibilities include markets. Among those to have
invasion of computer systems, done so are American Interoation-
which can result in fraudulent al Group, Nationwide Mutual In-
transfer or theft of funds, sabotage surance COt and General Re Corp.
of financial records, and the hold- State regulatory dima tes on stan-

could not expose himself to undue insure PhD Collins's house,” said
risk.” Steve Goldstein, an institute

The rise in white-collar crime has spokesman, referring to the rock
led finandal institutions to start singer.

protecting themselves against what A trend, say U.S. industry
is referred to as “balance sheet sources, is for large, mainstream
risk,” or anything that can cata- U.S. insurance concerns to form
strophically damage financial subsidiaries to tap into specialty
health. Such possibilities indude markets. Among those to have
invasion of computer systems, done so are American Internation-
which can result in fraudulent al Group, Nationwide Mutual In-
transfer or theft of funds, sabotage surance Co n and General Re CoTp.
of financial records, and the hold- State regulatory dimates on stall-
ing for ransom of a very valuable dard markets, moreover, appear to

asset: the chief executive.

“In analyzing such situations,
one has to identify exactly what the

contract, moreover, is the ability of risks are, how much they should be
a broker, acting on behalf the per- insured for and, of course, what is

son seeking insurance, to come to
an agreement with the insurer on
the limi ts of a possible c laim. The
value of the asset being insured, be
it a prize diamond, a rock star’s
timely appearance on stage, or
one’s ability to dunk a basketball

Card Protection Flan costs £7 a cheats .a token amount for

too many banks pay Hp service to year and policyholders are covered jke inconvenience caused by the

the Commissions recommenda-
tion," said Ms. Mosca. The con-
tract holder's liability will often de-
pend on whether a personal
identification number, or PIN, has
been used in the transaction.
French banking giants. Credit
Agricole, Credit Lyonnais and
Cnfidit du Nord expect clients to

for up to £1,000 provided they re-
port the loss or theft within 24
hours.

“If the policyholder fads to re-
port within this lime, we may still

loss of personal effects such as

passport, driving license and resi- constantly, say experts. For exam-
dence papers. pic, how many individuals or com-

You may have to shop around to P™s 25 years ^ would have
find an insurance scheme which is peedod to uuuro the cnrtirag or

prior to umification of the loss or cover their losses ipiorro nonfi ca-
theft of a card, even in cues where non if money has beeo withdrawn
no gross negligence is involved. from m eutomated teDer machmt
^praSleroos contrary to Howeve r, once the bmla hove bear
rherenraof a European Commie- ootrfied of raid tteh or te. the
aon recommendarioiupirblished in OBorrrerii freed from responal*.
1 988, that puts a maximum thresh-

oidof 150 Ecus (about 5173) on the “If the PIN falls into the wrong
customer’s liability prior to notifi- hands, the banks automatically as-
cation of card loss or theft. “Until sume that the cardholder is guilty

port within this lime, we may still But if you are in any burning of a computer data base?

provide cover, depending on the doubt about the terms of your card Now, it’s a niche market. Profcs-
merils of the case,” said a company contract, or if the issuer is known to aonal investment advice and finan-
spokesman. Both plans offer addi- a hard line in cases of card cial audits are more often charged
tional benefits including emergen- misuse and cardholder liability, the with negligence amid today's legal
cy cash advances, a cad-loss re- effort wffl be worth it. climate, prompting some accoun-

annually in the United States fonns the basis for policy limits.
a * one ’ - “Take the case of a professional

New things to insure crop up athlete wanting to insure his body,"
constantly, say experts. For exam- sa ^d Mr. Doak. “A marginal player
pie, how many Lodividaals or com- wbo sitsonthe be^ jrouldkvea
panics 25 years ago would have probkm i msunng his legs for, say,
needed to insure Te crashing or 510 a b - ro * CT

humtnp nf , dal* W? «myincmg

an insurer that the legs could ever
be worth that much. But a star
player who makes millions a year
and has endorsement contracts

insurable,” said Francis deZulueta,
a director of Special Risk Services
Ltd., a London insurance broker-
age specializing in balance-sheet
risk.

Mr. deZulueta said that a large
European financial institution in-
volved in banking, slockbrokmg,
and fund management might take
out a blanket poOcy to provide, say,
£100 million in protection against a
range of such risks. Such a policy,
he added, would carry a premium
of £23 million to £5 million.

In the United States, one reason
for the growth in the specialty in-
surance industry is that, unlike in
Britain, it is less regulated than
traditional lines regarding premi-

be ever- ti ghtening

“In the UiL, insurance can't be
placed in the surplus market unless
it is not available in the licensed
market,” said Richard Bouhan, ex-
ecutive director of the National As-
sociation of Professional Surplus
Lines Offices, known as NAPSLO,
in Kansas Gty, Missouri, a trade
group for specialty brokers and in-
surers. “And since regulation on
standard markets is becoming
more difficult, there are more op-
portunities for specialty lines.”

Mr. Bouhan said that liability
insurance far day-care centers,
amusement parks, and companies
dealing with hazardous waste were
other examples of specialty mar-
kets. “Take the example of nuclear
waste,” be said. “The people who
generate the waste, haul h, and
that store it aD have to have cover-
age."

old ofl 50 Ecus (about 5173) on the “If the PIN falls into the wrong
customer’s liability prior to notifi- hands, the banks automatically as-
cation of card loss or theft. “Until sume that the cardholder is guilty
binding measures are introduced, it of negligence,” said Jean Allix, a
is unlike ly that the rccommenda- member of the Commission's Con-

ey cash advances, a card-loss re- effort will be worth it.
porting service and key retrieval

service. The card-loss reporting ser- T /T

vice can be invaluable for dieuts I T*B fi'l'l \ JIT

with more than one or two credit
cards. On the loss or theft of a

wallet or handbag, customers can PFORTUNITIES for

call and the staff at either of the ■ ■ cross-border car insur-

firms will cancel the cards on their W W ance sales are virtually

behalf and Older new ones. ^ nonexistent and are

“Without the service, card- My to remain so for many yeais

Insure Cars at Home

O PPORTUNITIES for “Unless the market is sufficient-
cross-border car insur- ly large, cross-border car insurance
ance sales are virtually sales would make little commercial
nonexistent and are sense,” said Mr. Anderson.

binding measures are introduced, it of negligence,” said Jean Allix, a “Without the service, card- jutety to remain so lor many years From the consumer’s point of
is unlikely that the rccommenda- member of the Commission's Con- holders would have to phone u, 5J I ^i lTatAC/wwtiw>v>fn - th . view, car insurance is not really a
Hon will have much effect in the sumer Policy Service. “Yet, it is not around the various issuers — a "J" r*® major financial concern, according

of such a powerful European diffierd. to imagme »mari« in suri*,” raid Boh !2?SE!S&

banking lobby,” warns Laura where this can occur witt
Mosca, consumer affairs spokes- negligence bring involved.'
man for the consumers group. Horror stories abound of card-

Visa and MasterCard, the two holders being forced to reveal their
largest card groups in Europe, can PIN as they are about to withdraw
do little to improve the situation, money from an ATM, and reports
\‘lt is up to individual card issuers of dever card frauds, where no vio-

•* _ _ . . f Imm «e nMWmirtA in.

sumer Policy Service. “Yet, it is not around the various issuers — a f a ^ e , s< 2 ne tl ? n ^ major financial concern, according

loo difficult to imagine scenarios time-consuming and extremely t0 311 industry analyst. “Even if the

where this can occur without any frustrating process if they do not Tl foreign policy worked out cheaper,

negligence being involved.” have theSrSdetaHs to band,” said most , consumers wouU prefer to

H^ror 6 stories abound of card- Hamrsh Ogston, chairman of Card ofIhcconw -

holders being forced to reveal their ProtecutmPlan. deteSed from offering products on

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SPORTS

A (Blue) Devil-May-Care Big Man

The Offbeat Cherokee Parks Has Helped Inspire Duke

By Barry Jacobs

Aw York Tuna Service

DURHAM, North Carolina — The banter
was vintage Cherokee Parks.

Like the rest of bis Duke teammates. Paries
was playing tenacious defense against Purdue
in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
Southeast Regional final March 26. The 6-foot-
1 1-inch (2.11 meter) center, who set a school
record with 10 blocked shots in a game earlier
in March, had immediately established a com-
manding presence in the lane, blocking the first
shot attempt by Glenn Robinson, Purdue’s all-
America forward.

Yet, busy as he was. Parks still found ample
opportunity to indulge in his idiosyncratic
brand of on-court patter, using Robinson's
nickname to get himself and his teammates
going.

Paries played a key reserve role on Duke’s
1992 championship squad, but often ran afoul
of Laettner, who questioned the Californian’s
competitiveness and tried to provoke him ver-
bally and physically. Last year, inconsistent
play by Parks and Lang often irritated the
team's seniors.

This season, though. Parks has emerged as a
dependable player. And his personal style has fit

He wears his hair long,
still listens to message-
laden heavy-metal music,
and has added a personally
designed tattoo of an

8 °^ e whole game. Cherokee’s calling us ‘Big Aztec SUU god to hlS ankle

Dog,’ ” Tony Lang, a Duke senior, said.

“ ‘Lei’s go. Big Dog. Yeah. Big Dog.’ So I

think Glenn was getting mad, because Cherokee we n with the easvsoine. personable tone

think Glenn was getting mad, because Cherokee
was calling everybody out there ‘Big Dog.’ ”

The talk wasn't directed at the struggling
Robinson, though. Rather, it was Parks’s way
of having fun and maintaining concentration,
part of being what Lang fondly calls “a charac-
ter.” And part of wbal put the Blue Devils in
the Final Four for the seventh time in nine
seasons — they were to face Florida in the
second game Saturday.

“I’m more fired up these last couple of
games, down the stretch,*' Parks said.

“I’m just trying to be as intense as I can. On
the floor. In the locker room. Before the game.
After the game. Just trying to get everybody on
the team fired up. It's helped me out a lot. really
kept me more focused."

Parks also loudly tallies his rebounds as he
runs up court — “You can’t catch me!" he
shouts at teammates — and strives to come up
with odd comments at tense moments to help
others relax.

That lightheartedness wasn't appreciated in
previous seasons by older teammates like Chris-
tian Laettner, Thomas Hill and Bobby Hurley.

well with the easygoing, personable tone set by
seniors Lang and Grant HflL

“I think Cherokee, his personality, has really
helped us a lot, the fact that we fed more loose
when we’re out there playing." Lang said.

“We're not uptight, because you just look at
Cherokee and you get a laugh."

Parks arrived in Durham three autumns ago
with hair dyed burgundy, a reputation as one of
the best big men in his class, and an attitude
ihat placed a higher priority on being a college
student than on advancing his professional bas-
ketball prospects.

Unlike most Duke players. Parks had a mod-
est background in the game. He began playing
basketball in the eighth grade, and grew up
primarily with his mother, whose interests ran
more toward alternative lifestyles than to sports.

The first thing that Parks changed at Duke
was the color of his hair, which is naturally light
brown. But he remains unconventional He
wears his hair long, still listens to message-laden
heavy-metal music, and has added a personally

designed tattoo of an Aztec sun sod to his ankle.

Parks is proud, too, that his perspective
hasn't changed.

“I'm still a college student first, definitely,”
said the history major, fresh from pulling an all-
nighter to prepare for an exam in Roman histo-
ry. But, he conceded, “Basketball probably
consumes most of my time.”

That devotion to the game, however grudg-
ingly given, has paid increasing dividends.
“Cherokee has really kind of developed in a
nice pro gression.” said Mike Kjzyzewski, the
Duke coach.

Last year. Parks led Duke in rebounding and
blocked shots, and paced the Atlantic Coast
Conference in field-goal accuracy (652 per-
cent). This season he again leads the Blue Dev-
ils in rebounds (8J per game) and blocks (71).

Parks also has improved his seating average,
from 12 pants per game last season to 14.5,
second only to HQ1 on the team. Like Laettner,
and big men before him, Danny Ferry and Mark
Alarie, the fleet junior has made himself more
difficult to defend by extending his effective
shooting range to just inside the 3-ptint are.

Still Parks continued to disappear on occa-
sion this season, and slumped noticeably
through February. Fortunately for Duke,
though, his level of play has peaked just as the
season reached its crescendo.

“Cherokee in the last month has been so
much more outspoken and so much more ma-
ture." Krzyzewski said.

“You know where he's at He’s shared that
with his teammates. He's emotional on the
court. He shares that emotion. Talks in huddles.
So it’s like, he's an addition and that makes us

Just bow much better has been manifest
during the tournament.

“I think if we win this thing.” Krzyzewski
added, “a lot of it wfl] have to do with how weD
Cherokee plays. Because he now has an impact
on both ends of the court Big, big impact.”

Rrbcrw Boica/Tbe Axociacd

Milwaukee's Todd Day blocked a last-minute shot by Portland’s Teny Porta* that would have lied
the game. Day came down wife the rebound, then Mt a 3-pointer to seone the Bocks’ victory at home.

New English Fears
For Berlin Game

Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches

LONDON — A representative of England's soccer players on
Friday again questioned the wisdom of playing an international
exhibition match in Berlin on Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

“We are concerned about the safety of players gang into such a
volatile situation,” said Gordon Taylor, chairman of the Profession-
al Footballers Association. “We sympathize with the view that it
would be belter if this game didn't take place on April 20.”

But the English Football Association insisted that the match
would go ahead despite fears that players may face danger from
political extremists. The FA admitted, however, that it was keeping a
close watch on the situation in Germany, where there is a threat of
violence at the match.

Extremists from both ends of the political spectrum have threat-
ened to demonstrate at the game, which was moved to Berlin after
Hamburg withdrew as host because of concerns over potential
violence.

“We are monitoring the situation closely and keeping in touch
with our German counterparts,” said an FA spokesman, David
Bloomfield. “But as far as we are concerned, the match goes ahead.”

Said Taylor, who is seeking talks with the FA about the situation:
“It is an insensitive day to play. I imagine dub chairmen will be
worried when they realize what might happen.”

Last month, the headquarters of the Berlin soccer headquarters

ton was attacked, and the police suspect leftist protesters. German
££ security officials have indicated that Dutch, English and French
jug hooligans are planning to meet in Berlin to battle German rightists.

E The game is seen as an important warm-up for Germany as it
prepares to defend its World Cup title this summer in the United
rea States. It will be the second game for England under its new

sp manager, Terry Venables, who is rebuilding after the team failed to

‘ make the World Cup finals. (AP, Reuters)

The President as Top Hog: Good News or Bad?

By Thomas Boswell

Washington Post Service

W ASHINGTON — George Washington supposedly
threw coins across rivers. Abe Lincoln was a log
splitter and wrestler. Teddy Roosevelt hunted big game.
Dwight Eisenhower was always on the golf course. Jack
Kennedy, who hurt his back being a World War II hero,
refused to stop playing touch football, even against doctors'
advice. Jerry Ford was a football all-American. George Bush
would play five sports in a day and captained a college
baseball team that twice reached the national championship.

For a couple of centuries, it was axiomatic that the leader
of a vigorous, young na- —

lion would grab life by _ «!*

lion would grab life by Vantaae .V

the scruff of the neck wantage kTV-

and challenge it person- Point ^ 9

ally. The idea that the — — - I

most important man in the world would get passionately
excited about rooting for somebody else was the exception.
The only commander in chief whose voluminous knowledge
of sports trivia exceeded his own athletic exploits was also
the only president who stepped down after bang threatened
with impeachment.

Now, we have President Bill Clinton — a totally new
breed of cat Or, rather. Hog. He likes to study basketball
box scores and root for the Arkansas Razorbacks. We’ve
reached the point where one of our youngest presidents is a
participant, but connects with the world or sports most
passionately as a spectator. Yes, it’s different Possibly a
trend. Maybe even a symbol

When it cones to games, our president is typical of iris
generation. (Maybe it takes a Baby Boomer to know one.)
Clinton illustrates a contemporary paradox: the intense and
■ successful person who can also be a couch potato.

Tim president jogs to stay in shape, but he has also paused
when a McDonalds looms in sight. He enjoys the outdoors
and plays golf, but in a cart with a cigar in hand. He can't get
enough of those sports stats. His specialty is basketball, but

when he called Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson after the
Super Bowl he immediat ely started talking about interior
line play.

All in all he’s one of us gemaL ref-hooting modems who
passionately loves his teams but never played the tough
very much himself.

It's fun to see a chief executive who's self-deprecating
enough to wear a fire- engine-red Razorback hat and memo-
rize every detail of Arkansas games. The school routinely
faxes its postgame press notes to the White House.

Presumably it would take quite a crisis to keep Clinton
away from Charlotte when Arkansas faces Arizona in the
Final Four on Saturday. This is a man who mentioned in
passing to Sports Illustrated that Corliss Williamson aver-
ages 27 minutes a game- Not 28 or 26. mind you. We’re
talking about a radio-call-m-sbow level of absorption.

Clinton doesn't just greet US. Olympic champions. He goes
on the court and exchan^s affectionate, undignified bear hugs
with the Razorbacks 1 coach, Nolan Richardson. The president
doesn’t even pretend that aO teams are equal in his eyes. He
wants his Hogs to stampede the Final Foot. Electoral votes?
Who needs ’em. Give him credit. He’s no phony.

Clinton's love of the Razorbacks is so legit, so dose to the
bone, that you both admire its honesty and wonder about its
origins. Isn't it a bit unsettling to see a president who
identifies so strongly with a game whose roots are almost the
antithesis of his own experience? Clinton’s basketball career
peaked as a reserve on the Oxford University B Team. Yet he
rhapsodizes about falling in love with The City Game.

My generation loves to identify with what it is not. Ip our

of those baggy basketball shorts that are the most’ comically
hideous fa^hinn misialcf since tire Mohawk haircut.

Does all of this concern for appropriating coolness merely
reflect an eclectic breadth of view? Or does it inq>ly a bit of
an identity vacuum?

(Sorely' it must indicate the former. Otherwise, I might
have to take off my rugby shirt since I never played rugby*
Or my Braves bastftall cap.)

Win the day come when watching, rather than doing, is the
hallmar k American trait? What is Vice President A1 Gore's
beloved information superhighway but the ultimate oppor-
tunity to be a spectator? Sure, sore, there arc tons of s<xnally
useful and job-related applications for this technology. But
talk to some of the people who are bitiJdinathe cutting-edge
stuff. They’re searching for what they call The Killer Appli-
cation — the gimmick that makes everybody boy the gadget
— and that application is always assumed to be entertain-
ment. •.•••••*• *.

By the end of the century, well be able to watch any
movie, any TV show or any sports event any time we wish.
We can structure our whole life around a custom-designed
viewing schedule. What is “interactivity" but a new form of
spectating with icing on top?

W E HAVE seen presidents before who root for their
local teams. George Bush, who adopted Texas as his
home, got in trouble in Washington once for saying he hoped
his Houston Oilers would beat the Redskins. Still Gin ton’s
a new phenomenon. Have we ever seen a president who
critiques the coach’s substitution pattern arid knows how
many 3-point shots some substitute guard once made in a

nature. But we deeply wish to be those th in gs, even at the risk
erf looking pretty silly. Often, that connection with hipness is
made through rock music or sports.

Now, we have a president who wears shades and plays the
sax at bis Inaugural BalL The Razorbacks sent Clinton some

Have we ever had a president who might be invited to help
cut down the net?

Few people watch more games than 1 or enjoy it more —
both for a living and for fun. But then I don't think I should
be president Should I be flattered or worried when the guy
in charge acts so much like me?

Sonies Beat
Lakers by 3
On Kemp’s
Late Surge

The Associated Pros .

Magjc Johnson brought the Los
Angdes Lakes’ showtime to Seat-
tle, and Shawn Kemp turned it into
a showcase.

Kemp scored six of the Super-
Saties’ last seven points and fin-

NB A HIGHLIGHTS j

ished with 28 points and 12 re-
bounds in Seattle’s 95-92 victory. It
was Johnson’s first loss in three
games as the Lakers coach.

“Shawn was fantastic,” said the
Sonies coach, George Karl “He
made some big plays.”

Two of the biggest Thursday
night were his three-point play that
gave the Soaks a 93-88 lead with
2:23 left and bis rebound of Tony
Smith's intentionally missed free
throw with 13 seconds left, assur-
ing Seattle's 10th straight home vic-
tory over the Lakers.

“When he’s on his game, no one
in the league can stop him,” Sam
Perkins said of Kemp.

Johnson was upbeat after the loss,
saying his team's effort on Seattle's
hone court would help in upcoming I
home games against the Houston
Rockets and Atlanta Hawks. A
Hawks 106, Kin g s 102: Atlanta ■
handed Sacramento its sixth
straight loss as Kevin Willis scored
16 cl his 29 points in the fourth
quarter and grabbed 21 rebounds.

Mitch Richmond, who scored 26
points for the Kings, missed a 3>
point attempt with 14 seconds left
and Sacramento trailing 103-100.
Willis then hit two free throws and
Mookie Blaylock one in the final ■
seconds, sealing the victory that -
gave the Hawks their first 50- vic-
tory season since 1988-89.

Sus 117, dippers 102: Cedric
Ceballos scored 32 points and
Charles Barkley led a 55-31 re- -
bounding advantage by Phoenix -
with 17 rebounds at Los Angeles. =
Dominique W ilkins scored 28
pants and Ron Harper 19 for die : :
Clippers, who have lost four -*
straight games and are 04 against
the Suns this season. -

Bucks 111, Trail Blazers 109:

Ken Norman scored a season-high ::
37 points and had 13 rebounds as - .
Milwaukee defeated Portland, only ~
its 10th victory in 36 home games ~
this season. -

The Trail Blazers lost their third c
straight game despite a season-high -
36 points from Terry Porter and 33 >
by Gyde Drexler. ’

Portland led 5947 at halftime
but Norman personally outscored -l
the Blazers 16-13 in first nine min- -■
utes of the third quarter.

Portland got within 2 points four
times in the fourth quarter, the last
time on Porter’s 3-poinier at the
buzzer.

Spurs 101, Cavaliers 85: San An- : ~
tonio won its fifth consecutive
game as David Robinson scored i l >
of his 26 points in the fourth quar J
ter against Cleveland. - ■

The visiting Cavaliers, who were ■
led by John Williams with 21
points, drew no closer than nine in
the final period as Robinson kept
them at bay. ^

DENNIS THE MENACE PEANUTS

CALVIN AND HOBBES

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SPORTS

INTERNATIONAL raw A IJ) TRIBUNE, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 2-3, 1994

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The Crack of a Bat

By Dick Roraback

on this side of the ocean
"Of* the chestnuts are hinting of green
And the first of the cafe commandos
Are moving outside for a fine
A nd the sound of spring beats a bolero
As Pane sheds her coat and her hat
Thesound that is missed more than anv

Is the sound of the crack of aba.

9

an animal kind of a feeling
then's a stirring dawn at Vincennes Zoo
And the kid down the halTs getting restless
Taking stars like a young kangaroo
Now the dandy “ talking his poodle
And the concierge sunning her cat
But the heart’s with the Cubs and the Tigers
And the sound of the crack of a bat.

9

In the park on the comer run schoolboys
With a couple of cartons for props
Kicking goals d la Fontaine or Kopa
While a little guy duckies for cops
“Goal for us.” "No it’s not,” “ You're a liar.”
Then the classical shrieks of a spat
But it’s not tike a rhubarb at home plate
Or the sound of the crack of a bat

Hen the stadia thrill to the saumdowns
And the soccer fans flock to the gpmes
And the due punt the nags out at LongAamp
Where the women are dunes and not dames
But it’s different at Forbes and at Griffith
The homes of the Buc and the Nat

the hotdog and peanut s/uuv laurels
With the sound of the crack of a bat

•

No, a Yank can’t describe to a Frenchman
The rasp of an umpire’s call
The continuing charms of statistics
Changing hist’ry with each strike and bad
Nor the self-conscious jog of the slugger
Rounding third with the lip of his hat
Nor the half-smothered grace of a hook slide
Nor the sound of the crack of a bat

9

Now. the gplfer is biffing his niblick
And the tennis buff’s tightening his string?

Arid the fisherman’s flexing his flyrvd
Like a thousand and one other springs
Oh, the sports on both silks of the ocean
Have a great deal in common, at that
But die thing that’s not HERE
At this time of the year
Is the sound of the crack of a bat.

Dick Rorebscfc is a former Sports Editor of die Herald Tribune
Ki springtime degy has appeared io this space glace the !96 Ql

A Few Changes, but 2 Old Words: Play Ball!

The Associated Press

John Olerud of the Blue Jays
scrunches up bis face, trying to
imaging Row this season’s stand-
ings will look in his morning paper.

“It will be different,” the Ameri-
can League batting champion said.
“It might take a link white to fig-
ure ouL”

But even before the first pitch is
thrown, at a rare Sunday night
opener in Cincinnati, baseball fans
already know how they fed.

To purists, realignment and
wild-cani playoffs are absolutely
the worst thing that has happened
to baseball since the designated-
hitter debate began in 1973 — far
worse, even, than Michael Jordan
trying io mak e the majors. They say
it represents yet another step to-
ward makum baseball resemble the
National Hockey League, where
the regular season rawnns little, and
ritirnnatfs any hope of a pennant
race like the one waged by Atlanta
and San Francisco last faJL

To proponents, splitting each

league into three divisions is a big
change for the better. They say that
teams such as Texas and SL l/mfc,

which under the new format would

have made the playoffs last season,
now have an increased chance of
taking on the two-time World Se-
ries champion Blue Jays in Octo-
ber. They contend that this wili
generate more interest for a sport
whose appeal has bem H runnin g

To Jim Fregosi, it’s all a lot of
hot air.

“It doesn’t have B damn thing to
do with anything.*' the Philadel-
phia Phillies manager »»M

“You still have to win the

r es," be said, “You have to win
games to make the playoffs.
You re all playing the same sched-
ule. What’s the big deair

The big deal is that for the first
time in 125 years, a team will not
have to finish in first place to reach
the postseason.

That means that for the first time
teams will have to win a best-cf-
five-game first round then a

best-of-seven-game round before
reaching the World Series. And,
because of a new television pack-
age, all of the opening-round games

won’t be shown to all areas.

Talk of these changes is topic
No. 1 as baseball prepares for a
season that will feature the Bhie
Jays trying to become the first
three-time World Series winners
since Oakland in 1972, 73 and 74.
Barry Bonds chasing his third
straight Most Valuable Player
award. Cal Ripken positing toward
Lou Gehrig’s “iron -man " streak,
new ballparks in Cleveland and
Texas, and no more Nolan Ryan,
George Brett or Robin Yount.

On the field, the game will re-
main the same as in 1994: no dis-
putes about whether to use to des-
ignated hitter in interleague games
— which is stiO a few years away,
maybe — and no extra lively balls,
though there was a rash of high
scores in recent exhibition
There is a chance, however, (hat
players may strike in late August,

and almost no chance that there
will be a commissioner by the end
of the season.

How the game looks, or at least
how it is perceived, will be much
different from the start.

It mil require more than skim-
ming the top of the standings to see
who is playoff-bound. Instead, it
wiU take scanning the records of aB
the second-place dubs to figure out
which is ahead for a wild-card spot

Last year, that would have been
simple in the National League: The
Braves and Giants, who began the
final day tied with 103 victories,
would have both been in. Instead,
the last-day drama, which wound
up with A tlanta w inning and San

Francisco losing, would have been
merely for playoff positioning.

But a team like Seattle, which
has never made the playoffs, could
get in this year with a second-place
finish in the weak, four-team AL
West. Or the Gevdand Indians
could qualify by finishing behind

Where’s Faldo? Who Cares?

Absence of Stars Gives Lesser Golfers a Chance to Shine

liO

By Ian Thomsen

International Herald Tribune
LYON — Steven Bottomley
■ knew the big time was near because
| be was deciding to get rid ofhis
- mobile home: He had lived in it for
most of the last two years, cooking
in it, doing die dishes in it and
waking op m it, driving it from one
minor European golf tournament
to the next, and when it broke
down it was his job to fix it.

No sooner had it grown depend-
able from steady repairs than he
found himself trying to seO iL
Then he used the savings to hire
himself a caddy.

“A caddy these days costs a mini -
mntn £300 a week,” he said. “Hav-
ing a caddy relaxes you, it makes
you fed like you belong a httte bit It
makes you led good. Gordon Brand
Jr. has a caddy. So now be has
nothing over me at the moment.
He’s gpt more money, sure: But on
the course we're equals. He has a
caddy, I have a caddy ”

At 29, Bottomley. an En glishman ,
understands how dose he is to mak-
ing up the difference between him-
self and one of the best players in
this PGA European to u rn a ment, the
Open V33, winch began Friday. In
almost any other field, Gordon
Brand Jr. of Scotland would be a
secondary favorite: a Ryder Cup
player in 1987 and 1989 whohas
wan cmly one tournament since. Bui
in the Open V33 — with all of the
celebrities preparing abroad for the
UJx Masters Dext week — Gordon
Brand Jr. walks into the daylight of
Nick Faldo’s absence and casts a
shadow of his own.

Brand, shooting a first-round 73
in a storm Friday morning, is tak-
ing the place of Faldo: Does it
mean that Steven Bottomley —
with his 2-over-par 74 ■ — can as-
sume Brand’s station this week?

Bottomley qualified for the PGA
Tour this year. His goal is to earn at
least £50,000 ($74,000), placing
him among the Top 120 players
and assuring Mm of 8 place on the

>

tour next season, which might then
allow him to find a sponsor. With a
sponsor and a caddy, who blows
what he might do? He has earned
more than £16,000 so far this year,
with prize money in coming tour-
naments exceeding this week’s
purse of £250,000 — and, of course,
the stars returning at the aid of the
month to start claiming iL

’The bigger tournaments have
more fading to them,” Bottomley
said. “This one feds more like the
Qmllengp Tour where I was playing
last year. Yoc see a lot of gays here
tins week carrying their own bags.”

Actually, most of them pull their
bags on trolleys. What distin-
guishes Brian Nelson as an Ameri-
can is that be carried his bag over
his shoulder Friday. After spending
a week at home in Tyler, Texas, be
returned this week to play in Lyon
— a long trip for one week, but he
cannot ignore an opportunity to
break through at an event like this.

“The thing you hope to do is to
win a tournament in Europe, which
gives you a two-year exemption
over here,” he said. “Then you can
go back to the States and try to win
your card on the big tour there, and
you still have this as your back-up.”

Since leaving the University of
Texas in 1989, he said, be has been
trying to find a way onto tiie U.S.
PGA Tour. He earned the right to

play in Europe three years ago, but
that was a Ryder Cup year — the
stars were playing often in order to
qualify — and a few tournaments
were canceled because of the Gulf
War. He was damp and odd, pack-
ing his golf bag for the day, when a
fehow player approached him.

“Hey, California!” said the play-
er, Antonio Sobrinho, before cor-
recting hnnselL “Texas, I mean."

Hehad met Nelson only recent-
ly. Sobrinho was bom in Angola,
and his unde had moved him and
bis younger brother to Portugal
when Antonio was 3. He does not
remember his father, and be knows
nothing of his mother.

He took up golf in Portugal when
he was 14, only after an ankle inju-
ry cut short any soccer dreams he
might have had. He is 23 now, and
his golf dub at Vila Moure in the
Algarve was ready to sponsor his
professional career, except that he
could not leave the country. For six
years he had been trying to get a
Portuguese passport It was deliv-
ered to hfm lute last m ont h Be-
cause aB of tire best players are
elsewhere, Sobrinho was invited to
. malm his first airplane ride out of
Portugal to play m the Open V33.

“So what did you have?" So-
brinho said.

Replied Nelson: “77, not so
good. Yon?"

Sobrinho looked at him far a
mflmmr with something betweoi
satisfaction and guilt, for laving
felt good about something that
wasn't so good now after alL

“Seventy-six,” he said.

It was hard to tell, as he held his
breath, whether he felt better or
worse about it

“But tomorrow is another day.”
he finally said.

Sobrinho and Nelson, Brand and
Bottomley, would begin that day at
least six shots arrears. The storm
had cleared by the afternoon. The
early leader with an •

67 was a champion, Philip Price of
Wales, who had won his first torn-
□ament just two weeks ago, also in
the absmceof grander reputations.

■ OJazabal Leads In U.S.

Despite gusts of more than 20
ntiks (30 kflmneters) an hour, Jos6-
Maria Ofaztinl shot a course-record
9-under-par 63 Thursday to take a
four-stroke lead after the first round
of the Freeport-McMoRan Golf
Classic in New Orleans, The Associ-
ated Press reported

Olazabal, starting on the back
nine, had birdies on his second,
fourth, sixth and seventh holes. He
had five more birdies an the front
nine to break the course record of 64
set by Jod Edwards in 1991. Sam
Torrance was second with a 67.

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Colorado shortstop Walt Weiss waited in vain for the throw as Tuner Ward stole second base in Milwaukee’s 10-2 exhibition rout.

Chicago in the new AL Central and
winning the wDd-card berth.

“I think the fact that more teams
will be involved in races might be a
good thing for baseball,” Olerud
said. “You might see teams in it
that have not made it for awhile.”

That's what happened in 1969,
when the leagues were split into
divisicau.

Coming off a 1968 season in
which Detroit and St. Louis were
runaway pennant winners, seven
teams were given permission to

print playoff tickets when tire 1969
races entered the stretch. One of
those chibs was tire New York
Mets. which then capped one of
baseball's most incredible stores
by winning the World Series.

This year, tire Blue Jays will try
to make more history. Joe Carta’s
three-run homer off Philadelphia's
Mitch W illiams in the ninth inning

of Game 6 last year made Toronto
the first repeal champions snee the
1977-78 New York Yankees. Now.
tire Blue Jays are aiming for a third
straight tide.

Toronto is mostly in tacL But the
Phillies will begin without John
Kruk, who underwent surgery for
testicular cancer. Tire White Sen,
winners of the AL West last year
and now in the Central, will be
without Scott Radinsky, who has
Hodgkin's disease. The Braves are
minus Ron Gant, who was hurt in a
dirt-bike accident and was cut.

The realigned Braves, with their
rotation of the two-time Cy Young
winner Greg Maddux, the one-time
winner Tom Glflvme and the NL
playoff MVPs Steve Avery and
John Smoltz, are expected to win a
tough NL East that includes Phila-
delphia and Montreal.

Bonds and Frank Thomas will bry
to win another MVP award, white
Juan Gonzalez, Ken Griffey Jr. and
tire new crop of AL stars dud for the
home-run title. Danyl Strawberry,
Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco
are back from injuries dial cost them
most of last year.

Gevdand, with Dennis Marti-
nez, Jade Morris and Eddie Mur-
ray, and Texas, with WiU Clark,
will try to reach the playoffs for the
first time since the leagues split into
divisions. Both teams have new
ballparks.

Then there is Ripken, the Balti-
more shortstop, who extended his
streak of consecutive games to 1,897
last season. If he continues to play
every game, he would break Geh-
rig’s record of 2,130 in June- 1995.

Another Out: Swapping Series Start

The Associated Pros

NEW YORK — Another baseball tradition —
alternating the starting city in tire World Series
between the leagues —has bitten the dusL
The World Series will start in the city of the
American League champion this year for the sec-
ond straight season because of baseball's desire to
avoid conflict with the National Football League.

The Series start had alternated between the
leagues since 1935, when the Chicago Cubs gave up
home-field advantage to the Detrat Tigers because
they said Wrigtey Field wouldn’t be ready in time.

"fire National League wiU be home for the start
of the World Series in 1995 and 1996, according to
Thursday’s announcement. Baseball officials said
the change was necessary because of tire expanded

ffs, which extend baseball through almost
1 of the NFL season.

“There was a possibility in some of the sires
there would be five consecutive weekends their
teams couldn’t be home,” said an NL spokeswom-
an, Katy Feeney, who was in charge of coordinat-
ing sch e dule s with the NFL.

Edit NL stadiums are shared with NFL teams:
Gponnafi, Colorado, Florida. Houston, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburgh, San Diego and San Francisco.
Baseball has the right to first use erf all the parks
except Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.

Game 7 of the World Series is scheduled for
Sunday, Oct 30, two days later than any other Series
gtme has been played. Based on the current ar-
rangement, Game 7 in 1996 would be on Nov. 3.

SIDELINES

SCOREBOARD

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Major League Scores

PRE-SEASON EXHIBITION GAMES

■nunaarv Rotate
Montreal 2, New York Yankaa 1
Pittsburgh & Toronto 0
Detroit 7, OndnnaM 4 1

Chicago White Sax A Baltimore 6> II Innings
Cleveland 7. Kansas atv 3
Florida i Houston 4
Philadelphia 8 SL Loub 3
Attcnta 4. New York Mets 0
Milwaukee 10. Colorado 2
Seattle 5, San Diego I .

California 11. Chicago Cubs 7
Minnesota 3. Boston 0

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M 34 V 27—162

P: OtxOIos 12-21 6-1032. BarkJer M4 *4 14;
LA: Wttklns 1V23 5-8 21 Harper 8-14 84 19.
Rabouads— Ptwcnfac 46 (Brektovl7).Las Ange-
les 44 (Windra 8). AMlste- fhoerix 34 ( KJctm-
son 14). Los Angelos 22 Uaoksen. Harper «).
Atlanta » 31 21 31— Mf

Sacramento 19 2S 2t 39 Ml

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Richmond lb-24 6-7 26, Williams 13-22 44 32;
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to 51 (Slirrmana*). Assists — AtKmto24 (Btov-
locfc li), Sacramento 25 (Simmons 7).

hockey

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Wash motor 35

Honda 32

Philadelphia

N.Y. Islanders
Tampa Bay 26 40 11 63

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Bufiofo 39 » 9 87

Quebec 31 39 7 W

Hartford 25 45 • 58

Ottawa U 56 8 34

WESTERN CONFERENCE
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Ruutfu 9 (Chenas) CPP): W-KoMier 14. W-
JaneslsCBarrldga, Ridley). IBM Period: w-
Konowalchuk 10 (Berube. Stater); C-
Rooitiefc 44 (Wilkinson OuMnskv); C-
Romkfc 45 lAmonhs Oubiraky) Ipp). Shots
an goal: W (on Hackett. Soocv. Hockett] Ml-
4—36. C (on Dafoe) 5-7-7—19.

ToreatQ 2 1 0-3

Saojose 1 1 3-«

First Period: T-Androvcnuk S3 (GIB. OH-

mour) (dp); T-CuMonll (Larkmoy.McRao);
&JrFalloon22 (Gaudroau. Dahlan) (PP).Soc-
and Period: T-Gartnor 31 (Gill); S_MJafctr »
(Whitney. Falloanl.Tbim Period: IMB 23
(Krona. Dwchosne); SJ.-OaMan 21 (EDM;
5J. -Whitney 12 (Cronin). Shots ea goal: T (on
irbo) 114 9 a *. S-L (on Potvln) S-3-5— 16.

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Peri od: E-Amott 30 (Mctttoy,
McAmmond) A-Lebeau u (Dodos.
MCSween). Third Period: A-Sacco 17
(Sweeney. Van Allen); E-Rlee 16 (Wetaht,
Pearson). Orerttae: E-Arndt 31 I McAm-
mond}. shots oa goal: E (an Hebort) P-144-
2—31. A (on BndhwoHe. Rentard. Broth-
Matte) 13-8-12-0—33.

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°FLOR?DA---Pat Dave Maoodra tofhrtder,
on lSday ttstaad list, retrooenvota MarchW.
RoJeasad Morto Din. MMdsr. Optioned Bob
NataL catcher, to Edmonton. PCI- Sent Brian
Bra hm an, pitcher, outright to Edmonton.

MONTREAL— Sold the contracts of John
Vandar WOL outfielder, and player named
later to Colorado tor undbetosed amount ol
cash. Released Tim Leanr, Pitcher.

N.Y. mets— T raded Alan ZJntor, 1st baso-
maa to Detroit tor Rico Bragna, 1st baseman,
and assigned Brogno to NortoJk, ii_ Sent Rick
Parker, outfielder, to mtoorJeague camp tor
reassignment.

SAN FRANCISCO— Claimed Brad Brink,
pttchor, off wofvers from Philadelphia

CINCINNATI — Mamed Gerald OWi ath-
letic director.

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON— Extended
the contract of John KrcBso. mom ba sk etball
coach, for io years.

CREIGHTON— Named Dona Altman
men* kofcd faat coach.

PAYTO N An noun c e d the reshmatten ot
Sue Ramsey, women's basketball coach.

EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE— N-
amed Matt Paten women’s soccer coach.

EDINBORO— Ed Stall, offensive line
coach, and Gone Smith, defensive line coach,
res i gned. Stults was named football coach of
Defiance College. Named Tony Elliott assis-
taif football coach.

FA I RLE I GH DICKINSON— Thereso Hru-
basts womens assistant basketball coodbre-

INDIANAPOLIS— Released Scott Rodedc

TENNIS

SALEM OPEN

PHILADELPHIA— Signed William FuHer,
d e fen siv e end. to 3-veor contract.

NEW ENGLAND— Signed Blair Thomas,
running back.

SAN DIEGO— Withdrew tender offer to
Erie Blenlemy, running back. Stoned Dante
Gto son. H n eb oriwr.toJ re ar co ntrac t Named
Kevin O’Dea reaching re s ist ant.

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TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALL

BALTIMORE— Rich Gedman. ratetar, re-
tired. Optioned Stork Smith outfielder, to

CAU FORNIA— Sinned Ken Patterson,
oHdtor. to rnkwr- league antrad.

CLEVELAND— Agreed to tame with
Sandy Alomar Jr^catawr. on contract

extension through 1997. Seat Tim Jones. In-
Retdar, and David Lynta, p H c ner. to minor-
ham camp far reamtenman). Opt toned AJ-
We Lopez. Pitcher, to Chertotte, U_

DETROIT— Assigned Alan 2Mer, 1st base-
man, to Taledn IL. Optioned Baddy Groom.
Pitcher, to Totoda

tk rtfc xta League

0(1 CAGO CUBS— Bought antrod of Mark
Parent catcher, from luwa.AA.OpttancdKe-
«in Roberson and Scott BultaLoutfleMofs. to
lawn. Sent Mike MaksutSon. catcher, to mi-
n or -tong u t eem n for l eusslgn mont.

CitiOHNATi— Bought centres of Jerome
WOtton.outfleWer.fram lndtooapalis.AA.QP
honed JerTY Snnxffia pttSier, to i ndia ncw o -

11 s. Assigned R)di Sawvaur.plMier, to (ndto-

ANAHE1M — Signe d Maxim Bets, i efl wtoto
to iifulttysur (nitrsd.

CALGARY— Sent Andrei Trefilov,goaile,lo
Saint Jgha AH L

HARTFORD — Recalled J*n Stevww. Or-
to ns omoa from Sprtngftew. AM|_
MONTREAL— Sent Brian Savage, renter,
to Fredericton. AHL.

N.Y. ISLAM DERS— Recalled Daw Ctff-
zowdd and Ztoav Potffv. to« wlnos. from Srit

Lake Oty, IHL

N.Y. RANGERS- R e called Mottles Nor-
Strom, de f uu smon. from Blnwtwwfon. ahl
ST. LOUIS— Sard Terry Hoi Unger, defense-

man; Tony Hrtsoc center; and Vltalt Korenv

mv. toft wina to Peorto, IHL. Extended aw
tract of Madde SbUstonn rendWtoning

amsultoBt, tor 3 wars. Sent Demiv Felsner,

rtohl winato Peoria Recalled Porris Dvhw,
goalie, from Peoria.

5ANJOSE— Traded Doug Zmoiekond Ml k*

Uflor.d efen semeis to Polios tor UH Dtatoa.
right wtno, end future coneldeRdtom.

TAMPA BAY— Recalled Jim Cuntmtaw left
wbw, and Eric Owrron. defe ns eman, from
Atlanta IHL

TORONTO— Called up Frank BkJ Ureas, cto-
tonseman tram SI. JatoTs. AHL

WASHINGTON— 5 tardStefonDsforf. coo-
ler.

WINNIPEG-Traded Paul Ysetaert, ren-
ter. to Odcaga far 3rd-reund pick in 1998
COLLEGE

ALABAMA-HUNTSVILLE— Named BID
Peterson men's basketball raoch.

ARKANSAS ST— Named Tom Jordan tight
ends caodi and aotistanr reauMni caontealor.

BALL ST— Named Ren Ktotonssa ana L^
wm BeUn a s si st ant football coaches.

BAYLOR— Fired Pom Bawcra womens
txsfcefball reach.

BOSTON COLLEGE— Slew Cedorrfwk.
hockey ceodv resigned.

BOSTON COLLEGE— Named Mike MU-
burv hockev cotxJi

CALIFORNIA— Jason KUL suord. wfH
forego Ms final two yoarsoleftgtWIIty to enter
NBA draft.

CARN EGI E-MEU-OH— Named Jb nMareiB
and Paf Johnston eestotort tootadl caacnw

FINDLAY— Rred Sheryl Neff, women*
basketball and softball coocti.

FLORIDA ST. — Suspended Derrick Car-
roll, f or ward. IndeflnWefy for foUIng to follow
prescribed academic guidelines

INDIANA ST.— Named Sherman Dillard
men's baskettxiH reach.

KUT2TOWN — N amed Vicki MUlor assis-
tant women's bate e tb o ll and assistant field
hockey reach.

LA SALLE— Extended contract of John
Miller, women’s basketball reach, through
1996-97.

LEHIGH— Named Kevin Higgins football

LSU— Jamte Brandon, guard, will forego
final year ol el totounv to make MmseH avali-
abie tor NBA draft

MARIST— Fired Tom ChJcvriU, woman's

NAVY— Debra Schlegel, womens basket-
ball reach, resigned.

NEVADA— Roger Bowea mens and wom-
en's track and field and erase country coach,
re s igned effective June 3a

NEWBERRY— Mike Vito, a ssis tant toot-
ball coach, resigned

S.E. LOUISIANA— Normon Pleou, mens
basketball reach, resigned to take asstotart
reach i n g position at So u ther n University.

PENN STATE-BEHREND— Named Dave
Nlland men's basketball coach.

RICHMON D N om ad Ken FloM*e detersive
coonflnafor; Frank Leonard offensive fine
cooen; and Mott Griffin wide receivers cooch.

SOUTH ALABAMA— Named Jim Smoot
womens volleyball coach.

SPRINGFIELD— Named Squire Bressor
men’s tennis coach.

TENNESSEE— Named Kevin O’Neill
mens ba tee tb o ll co och .

XAVIER. OHIO— Pe te Gniea mens bas-
kefball cooch. resigned to take head coaching
position at Prev W wco.

WESTERN STATE, COLO.— Or. Jay Hel-
morv mens txidcetball coach, resigned.

WAYNE STATE, NEB. — Named Greg
McDermott mans basketball reach.

WEST TEXAS A&M— Ran Steele, football
cooch. resigned. Named Morris S l one i nterim
football coac h .

YALE— Named Bob SHoop Interim defen-
sive coordinator.

YESHIVA— Fired Mike Cohen, womens
basketball coach.

A Nashville Bid for Tlmberwolves

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Gaylord Entertainment Co. and city
officials announced Friday a $100 million offer to buy the Minnesota
Tanberwolves and relocate the National Basketball Association team.

Gaylord officials said they would put up $80 million, with the city
providing an additional $20 million. The offer depends on amBring
several conditions, including the filing of a letter-of-intent to move by
team officials. NBA owners set Friday as a deadline for Tlmberwolves*
officials to announce whether they would stay in Minneapolis or move.

Marvin Wolfenson and Harvey fcatner, who own the Target Center and
the Tlmberwolves, are seeking to seD the arena and have talked about
moving the team. Despite drawing near-capacity crowds to Wolves games,
they sty they arc losing money on the mortgage to the $105 million arena.
Minnesota is Hying to keep the Tanberwolves in Minneapolis. A state
Senate committee approved a bill Thursday that would contribute $22i
million in public money toward baying the Target Center.

ENZA Sets Round-tihie- World Record

BREST, France (AP) —The catamaran ENZA New Zealand complet-
ed a round-the-world sail on Friday in 74 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes,
breaking the year-old record of a French boat by more than four days.

The ENZA was skippered by Peter Blake of New Zealand and Robin
Knox-Johnston of Britain, with a crew of three other Britons and three
other New Zealanders. They broke the record of 79 days, 6 hours. 15
minutes, 56 s eco nd s, set in April 1993 by Bruno Peyron of France.

Tbe ENZA left Brest on Jan. 16 in a dud for a record with the French
trimaran Lyonnatse, skippered by Olivier Keraauron. which is expected
to arrive here Sunday or Monday.

U.K. Rejects Boxer, Citing Health

LONDON (AP) — James (Bonecrusher) Smith, who turns 41 on
Sunday, was denied a license to box in Britain on medical grounds
Friday, forcing the former world heavyweight champion to poll out of
next week’s bout with the European champion Henry Akinwande.

Tbe British Boxing Board of Control said it was not satisfied with the
results from an MRI scan and other tests conducted on Smith, an
American who held the WBA title briefly in the mid-1980s. The board did
not reveal the specific medical reason that led to the license being denied.

“The Board has ruled that Smith cannot be licensed in this country
after detailed consideration of medical reports from tests carried out on
Smith after the past few days,” said a British boxing official, John Morris.

For the Record

Fred Coqptes, 34, has a herniated disc and wiD miss next week’s
Masters golf tournament, which he won in 1992. (AP)

Daa Marino, the Miami Dolphins quarterback, underwent successful
surgay Thursday to remove bone spurs from his right ankle. fAP)

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INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 2-3, 1994

DAVE BARRY

Parental Dork Duty

All Togetha Now, Let’s Hear It for Atlanta

PEOPLE

M IAMI — “Rob," I said to ray
I3-year-oId son, who was —
this being a school rooming —
sleeping face down in hb breakfast
“How would you like it if I picked
you up at school in the Oscar
Mayer Wienermobile?”

“DAD!" he said, coming vio-
lently to life, horrified. “NO!"

So right away I knew it was a
good idea. Your most important
responsibility, as the parent of an
adolescent, is to be a hideous em-
barrassment to your child. Fortu-
nately, most of us parents have a
natural flair for this.

For example: 1*11 be driving Rob
and some mends somewhere, and
theyTl be in the back seat, talking
the way young people do, in a series
of statements that sound like ques-
tions. (“So Mr. Neeble? He had this
gross thing? In his nose? Like the
size of a GRAPE? And so Wesley
Plunkington7 He put an eraser? In
HIS nose? Then he raised his hand?
And then . . .") While the young
people discuss academic matters,
Hi tune the radio to a station that
plays Old People's Rock, and
sometimes a good song will come
on, such as “Brown-Eyed Girl,"
and IH hum softly along but when
Van Morrison gets to the part that
goes, “Do you remember when we
used to sing" I’ll forget myself and,
right along with Van, belt but: “Sha
la la la la la la la la la la te DAHL"
Then I'll realize that the young
people have stopped talking ana
are staring at me, and my son's
expression clearly indicates that he
wishes an alien spaceship would
kidnap him right then and take him
to a distant galaxy where nobody
would know that his father is a
dork. And at that moment, I know
I have done my parental duty.

□

So that's why I picked Rob up in
the Oscar Mayer WlenennobQe. It’s
a legal motor vehicle shaped like a
23-foot-long three-ton hot dog with
wheels in the buns. There are actual-
ly six Wienermo biles, which are
driven around the United States by
peppy and perky recent college
graduates. Recently Oscar Mayer
offered me the opportunity to drive
a Wienermobile, no doubt hoping
this would result in favorable pub-
licity, although of course I'm far too
ethical to promote Oscar Mayer
meat products, which are known to
cure heart disease.

Mv Wienermobile was under the

command of Tina Miller and Shan-
non Valrie, who have managed to
remain both peppy and petty de-
spite having spent nine months
haring thehilariously dever sug-
gestive remarks that men every-
where fed compelled to yep at
young women who are driving
around in a giant wiener. (NOTE
TO THESE MEN: If you think
YOU'RE dever, you should bear
what gets said about YOU, inside
the Wienermobile.) After a tbor-

Intemational Herald Tribune

P ARIS — Some months bade, IHT reader Lionel Salem
saw a front page story by Peter Appkbome titled, “In
Its Olympian Quest for a Slogan, Atlanta Is at a Loss for

Its Olympian Quest for a Slogan, Atlanta is at a loss lor
Words." Salem, a disting uished French research chemist
with a 37-Jine entry in Who's Who, had what he calls a
flash Eureka!

“You know how these things happen, you have an
empty moment in your head and it came as a flash," Salem
said, recalling the suddm inspiration that led him to create

FoulPtojbyMadonm
Upsets LeUermanShoK

MARY BLUME

ough training lecture (“Here’s the
Wienermobile’’), Tina and Shan-

Wi en ermobile”), Tina and Shan-
non let me take the wheel
My first destination was a trendy
glamour hot spot where beautiful
people sit at sidewalk caffe dis-
creetly admiring their own pectoral
muscles, and where you often see
fabulous seven-foot-tall Euro-babe
supermodels swooping past on
Roilerblades. 1 wanted to find out

a slogan which he promptly shared with this t
letter column. The slogan is Atlanta All T<

“Note the briefness, the alliteration, the quasi-rhyme (if
Together* is pronounced with a light Southern accent as
Togetha’), the symbol of Olympic fraternity and the un-
dertone of a united city,” Salem added in his letter, ending
with the hopeful question, “What do I win?"

Neither a gold nor a bronze so far. Salem sent in his
slogan abetted by the commercial attach^ of the Trench
Consulate in bringing it to the attention of the city’s
deciders. Six months later, not only is Atlanta not all
togetha but it hasn’t even got its act together although the
Olympics, at which the city’s slogan would presumably
feature, is only two years off. Salem hoped for news at the
closing of the Winter Games and was disappointed.

“I said to myself the guy from Atlanta goes to LiQeham-
mer dosing day and says, smiling in the snow and saying,
‘See you in Nagano, Japan.’ " Atlanta wasn’t even men-
tioned, Salem said.

At this point, Salem, who not only saw himself as
sloganeer to the New South but had also reserved the
commercial rights to his slogan, would like to know the
exact state of play. “Are they going to come out with then-
choice in six months? News at the end of last week was
that a large cardboard box of slogan submissions had been
sent over to the city's Convention and Visitors’ Bureau,
which seems to be in cfaaige of the campaign and which, to
its possible regret, initiated the contest. The plan was for
the bureau to choose for itself a slogan that would suit the
city’s major players, with the hope that the Chamber of
Commerce, the dty government and presumably the
Olympics would use it as well

The final choice from about 5,000 entries will be made
by the McCann Erickson advertising agency. “We may or
may not use any of them," a Chamber of Commerce
spokesman said, and added, “We may have been naive.”

The naivety alludes to the hope of getting all the local
interests to agree on something that w&l change Atlanta's
“Gone With the Wind” image to something more dynamic,
in keeping with the home ctf CocarCola, CNN and the 1996
Olympics. The search has gone on for well over a year.

T still believe you can market a city and the concept of
being preemptive in the way you market it is a logical
philosophical direction," Alf Nudfora said by telephone
from Atlanta. A specialist in strategic marketing, he has

as a journalist, whether a super-
model would be overcome by the
charisma of the WienermobOe and
want to go for a ride in it.

“FABULOUS EURO-BABE
SUPERMODELS!" I announced.
“DO NOT BE AFRAID TO BE
ATTRACTED TO THE WIEN-
ERMOBILE!"

A few people glanced up from
their pectorals, but (hat was it

The Highlight of the day was
picking up Rob at school He was
out front, with all his friends, when
I polled up. broadcasting on the PA
system.

“ROB BARRY, THIS IS YOUR
FATHER," I said. “PLEASE REr
PORT TO THE WIENERMO-
BILE IMMEDIATELY."

To his credit, he did. I could teQ
that, deep inside, be was proud of
his old man, although he did not
endititly say so. “I can't believe you
did this,” were his actual words.

Of course I did not expect
thanks. My reward is the know-
ledge that some day, somehow,
Rob will be a hideous embarrass-
ment to HIS son. That's what
makes tins country great: an older
generation passing along a cher-
ished tradition, in very much the
same way that a row of people at a
baseball game win pass along those
tasty Oscar Mayer wieners, which
by the way also have been shown in
laboratory tests to prevent bald-
ness.

m

Niadae Afau/IUT

which elicited the following comment from a British
journalist in 1981: “ The City Too Busy to Hate’ — a
slogan coined, or at least repeated today, by a people too
shortsighted to notice.”

Back in November, the Atlanta Journal and Constitu-
tion said that the local marketing company charged with
the task of coming op with an acceptable slogan had had
“an excruciating year.” What they seem to have done was
not only to separate the chaff from the chaff but to inspect
unsolicited drawings of possible mascots and listen to
theme songs to provide a local alternative to T Left My
Heart in San Francisco” or “New York; New York."

Braves beaded south after a stay in Milwaukee he natural-
ly transferred his allegiance. lie has been in Atlanta only
o nc e , overnight four or five years ago, when he lectured on
quantum chemistry at the University of Georgia. “I have
som e friends who live in Highlands, North Carolina,
which is not far from Atlanta but it’s not really in Atlanta.
I have the iznpresson that it’s 8 very beautifulcity, at least
what I saw of it”

Most of the slogans that have been submitted take the
city’s dream as their theme although cloudy on what the
dream is. Salem's own smaller dream was to win a couple
of tickets to the Games and to earn a royalty on products
featuring Ms slogan. He wonders now if Ms retaining the
commercial rights hasn’t jeopardized Ms slogan’s chances,
and a Washington-based observer confirms that one
shouldn't enter a contest and retain commercial rights:

“This is not how America works, alas. It is akm to
entering a contest on a bottle cap from Coca-Cola to name
a soft drink while demanding that, if you win, you become
president of the bottling company."

Salem of coarse has no such ambitions although, on the
advice of his son who has an MBA, he trademarked his
slogan for apparel. He would just like to see Ms flash of
inspiration take life: as he pointed out in a Federal
Express letter to Alf Nuciforato, “Atlanta All Together"
carries an implicit purpose for the dty.

Perhaps that’s the problem, with too many groups
trying to find a single purpose and some of them now sorry
they even tried. Atlanta All Together? Maybe one day, but
in the meantime how about a line from the Scarlett
O’Hara era: “After all, tomorrow is another day."

“The great consistency in all the entrants is that they
were largely pretty bad,” an arinum told the newspaper.
Rqectfidi slogans included “An Island Floating in a Sea of
Rednecks" and “Atlanta: At Least It’s Not Birmin gham. "

Professor Salem thinks, not unreasonably, that “Atlan-
ta AD Together" should be a contender even if no locals
seem to have run it up the flagpole yeL “I submitted it to

played a leading rede in the slogan search.
‘The bright cities of the future are getting c

hardnosed people Eke one of your deputy editors and my
brother, and they loved it," he said.

Knight-Ridder Newspapers

“The bright cities of the future are getting oat in front
and learning to market themselves as distinct from allow-
ing themselves to be marketed. And I do think that’s one
of Atlanta's problems right now — defining the agenda f at
the city."

Formerly, Atlanta had tried out such slogans as Gate-
way to the Sooth, Capital of the New South, and one

He is, it should be added, not just a dreamy research
chemist but has devoted modi of Ms career to popularizing
science, directing a new center for that purpose at tbe
University of Paris XL He regards writing the slogan as part
of popularizing ideas. Also, he is a fan of the Atlanta Braves.

Sakm grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, having left
France with Ms family in 1941, and when the Boston

Madonna aired her dirty linen cm
Darid Letterman's show, but you'd
have to be a lip reader to catch
everything die said. The singer
used obscenities 13 times during a
taping of “The Late Show With
David Letterman" and also threw
in a couple of other expressions
forbidden on television. CBS de-
leted the offending phrases before
the show rated. Madonna was dif-
ficult from the outset, refusing to
participate in the typical happy-
fiilk star chatter about what's hap-
pening in her career. “Why are you
so obsessed with my sex life?" she
demanded. Then she handed Let-
terman a pair of what she said were
her panties. He stuffed than in a
desk drawer and tried, unsuccess-
fully, to turn the talk to other
things. “It turned kind of ugly,
didn’t it?" Letterman, looking
somewhat shaken, said after the
superstar had departed.

□

Burt Reynolds was released from
a Los Angeles hospital after an
overnight stay for observation fol-
lowing chest pains brought on by
stress. His manager said be was
exhausted from work and making
appearances and was under stress
from personal problems.

□

Prince Edward, tbe youngest son
of Queen Elizabeth D, has invited
Sophie Rhys-Jooes, a commoner, to
celebrate Easter with the royal fam-
ily at Windsor Castle, according to a
source. No comment from Bucking-
ham Palace. . . . Prince Chaites
and his son Prince Harry ground to
a halt in central London outside the
Three Kings pub when Charles’s As-
ton Martin Volante broke down
only a day after detiva y, the Tele-
graph reperts. The two princes were i
unamused by the irony of tbe loca-
tion. “Tempos are very frayed," a
policeman observed.

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world turned out in Paris on Friday
for the funeral of the Romanian-
born playwright Eugene Ionesco,
as did the exiled king of Romania,
King Michael and his family. Io-
nesco died Monday at age 84.

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By Susan Goodman

,V«c York Timer Service

L EWES, England — Nestled in a fold of
gently curving Sussex Hills about SS miles
(90 kflomkeis) sotith of London is a rambling
old dwelling typical of the area, made of flint
and rendered brickwork, with parts dating from
the 16th century.

Tbe timeless peace of its setting, however,
and its serene facade behe the riotous interior.
For more than 60 years, until the late 1970s, this
was the home of Clive and Vanessa Bell and
Duncan Grant, a haven where their passions
for painting, writing and the decorative arts
could be indulged, undisturbed.

They were among the leaders of the Blooms-
bury group, a loosely knit circle of family and
friends whose tangled emotional lives and fits
of genius still enthrall, inspiring a new genera-
tion of artists decades later. And the remote
Charleston Farmhouse became its focal point.

The group’s colorful, irrepressible style
— what one critic has called A a happy colli-
sion between junk, and genius" epitomized
by such things as Charleston's freestyle
frescoed walls, hand-printed fabric, bold
nudes and vivid tile — is making a comeback.

both in En gland and the United States.

And the house that inspired it has been
sympathetically restored, its intimate and
uniquely decorated rooms painstakingly
brought back to life.

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a dis-
play of furniture made by members of the
Omega Workshop, an artists’ cooperative in
London whose bright colors and individual
expression greatly influenced the Bloomsbury
group, is a “big attraction for visitors,” said
Gareth Williams, a curator in the museum's
Furniture and Woodwork Collection. “Increas-
ingly, people seem to like interiors that look
hand-applied, the sense that a room is a highly
individual expression of taste," Williams said.

Christopher Naylor, the director of tbe
Charleston Trust, a charitable group that has
renovated the farmhouse and opened it to tbe
public, agreed. “Today, there is certainly a
reaction against the uniformity offered by mini-
malism. What people see here is infections, full
of energy, empowering. You don't have to plan
this kind of home decoration. Just do it — and
if it works, keep it"

The style apparently works for three young
artists whose work is being recognized in-

creasingly by tbe English and Americans:
Cressida BelL a decorator and textiles design-
er and a granddaughter of the Bells whose new
shop in London opened last week and who
also has redecorated the interiors of homes in
Virginia and Florida; Sophie MacCarthy, a
potter wbose grandfather, tbe writer Desmond
MacCarthy, and his wife, Molly, were dose
friends of the Bells and frequent visitors to
Charleston, and Robert Campling, an artist
and a designer whose intricately painted
wooden trays and boxes are immersed in the
Bloomsbury style.

Small in scale, the three-story bouse immedi-
atdy enchants. Dominating the first-floor din-
ing room is a large round table decorated by
Vanessa Bell in abstract motifs of pink and
green in scalloping curves.

In the spare bedroom on the second floor, her
trompe roeal stylized flowers creep up interior
wooden shutters. Tbe oblong side table on
which Grant painted a golden-haired youth
astride a frolicking dolphin is still by the win-
dow in what was once his second-floor dressing
room.

Charleston is open to the public from April 2 to
Ocl 30. TeL: (44-323) 811-265.

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